On 4/4/07, Richard Riley <<a href="mailto:rriley@procuri.com">rriley@procuri.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a nightly backup process that uses tar writing the output to a file on an NFS mount. It had been working fine for weeks and suddenly on Tuesday started failing with error code of 141. Anyone know where I can find out what the error code means. I have tried a google search and looking at tar source code, both to no avail. I have another machine running the exact same script also writing to NFS mount and is experiencing no problems. The machine that has started failing is RHEL 3. The second machine is running RHEL 4 and the NFS server is running RHEL 4. They are manually kept up to date using up2date command. Here is the script. day=`date +%a` if [ "$day" == "Sun" ] then STAMP="Wk`date +%U`-$day`date +%m%d%H%M`" else STAMP="$day`date +%m%d%H%M`" fi logfile=/var/log/db-bkup/bkuplog-$STAMP db_bkup_file=$bkup_hold_dir/`hostname`-db_bkup-$STAMP.tar.gz # Stop mysql process to start backup, force flush to disk /sbin/service mysql stop echo "backup started at `date`" >$logfile cd /home/ # backup /var/lib/mysql to $db-bkup-file directory tar -czv --ignore-failed-read --totals mysql >$db_bkup_file 2>>$logfile CODE=$? if [ $CODE == 0 ] then echo "backup completed at `date`" >>$logfile else echo "Backup failed at `date` with error code ($CODE)" >>$logfile fi # Start mysql service again, will resync with master at this point /sbin/service mysql start The tar command is failing in the exact same place every time, regardless of when run from cron or kicked off manually. I know this by the logfile which shows a list of all the files written. It appears to be part way through a directory. If I run tar on that directory alone, it completes fine. I can find no other error indicators. Richard Riley System Administrator Procuri Inc. <a href="http://www.procuri.com">www.procuri.com</a></blockquote><div> Why are you asking about tar usage on this email list? Was this page not clear enough? <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a> </div> </div>