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Re: [GENERAL] PITR and tar
- From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
- To: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
- Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Dhaval Shah <dhaval(dot)shah(dot)m(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PITR and tar
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:46:21 -0400
"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes: > Does anyone know what the history of the docs saying that GNU tar had > issues with files changing underneath it? According to this report it's > actually BSD tar that has the issue. It seems to be a different issue. The problem with GNU tar is that it issues a warning and exits with nonzero status, which is a problem for backup scripts because they can't easily distinguish this case from an actual failure. But AFAIK the output file is self-consistent anyway. It sounds like bsd tar is just plain broken :-( regards, tom lane
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