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Old May 20th, 2006, 10:15 AM
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Problem while creating tar
Getting this error while making tar
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Command I am using is
tar -cvf dir.tar dir_name

It starts running but after sometime It gives the error and exits.
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There's usually an error above that line. The line you've shown is the one indicating the preivious error is not recoverable.

What directory are you backing up?
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I realized later ..the error was only coming when the tar file size was increasing 1 GB ..

Might be some restriction with tar version..anyways I need another help ..
I am creating a new thread..
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