Hi

I'm trying to tar up /usr/local/apache/

/usr/local/apache is 1121 MB

I ran: tar -czvf /home/apache.tar.gz /usr/local/apache
and it SEEMS to of finished, but... it stopped with
apache/test/
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

How can i find out if it did indeed tar up everything? Or did it stop? /home/apache is 685MB

If tar'ing it up is a bad method of putting it all into one big file, what other methods could i use in this situation? Can anyone help?

Originally posted by clocker1996
...and it SEEMS to of finished, but... it stopped with
apache/test/

How does it seem to have finished, and seem to have stopped with apache/test?

Anyway, you can do a "tar -tzf" to list the contents.

tar may fail if you don't use --ignore-zeros, and there are some funky named files, or it will fail if files have names over 256 characters in length.

I can't thin of a better way to do what you're doing, except maybe use cpio, which doesn't have some of those problems.

You might also want to cd into the directory where you created the tar file and do a "df -k .". Check if that file possibly filled that file system.

Just a shot in the dark.

Frank

tar -w verifies the archive.
Also try
tar -d to compare the difference between the archive and the files.

Have a great day :)

regards
amar