Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It definitely is a pain in the neck that GNU tar complains about files
>> changing underneath it --- I've looked for a way to disable that, or at
>> least reduce it to a warning instead of an error condition, but gtar
>> doesn't seem to have such a switch. You should try alternative backup
>> tools such as cpio or rsync.
> You mean the tar exits or that it just returns an error code on
> completion?
I don't recall whether it finishes making the tarball, but it definitely
returns nonzero exit status, which makes it effectively unusable in any
automated script (you certainly don't want to ignore exit status in a
backup script ...)
regards, tom lane