[SunHELP] Tar error

[Taren]

> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tope Songonuga wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> Does anyone know what this error message means?
> 
>              /usr/local/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> The tar job is meant to archive about 16 files, but it hits the above error
> on the 2nd file, and carries on tarring, and I can read them all back from
> the tape, but when I try to extract the files from the archive, I get the
> following error:
> 
>              'filename'  Not found in archive
> 

This obviously indicates there's been some problem tarring part of your file
system.

If you do a 'tar cvf <filename>.tar <whatever>', and watch the errors generated
you would be able to see where the errors are occurring.