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Update docs that GNU tar versions >=1.16 exit with 1 on files changed, 2
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.98 2007/06/29 15:46:21 tgl Exp $ -->
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.99 2007/07/16 22:20:51 momjian Exp $ -->
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<chapter id="backup">
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<title>Backup and Restore</title>
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complaints of this sort from real errors. For example, some versions
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of <application>rsync</> return a separate exit code for <quote>vanished
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source files</>, and you can write a driver script to accept this exit
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code as a non-error case. Also,
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some versions of GNU <application>tar</> consider it an error if a file
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is changed while <application>tar</> is copying it. There does not seem
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to be any very convenient way to distinguish this error from other types
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of errors, other than manual inspection of <application>tar</>'s messages.
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GNU <application>tar</> is therefore not the best tool for making base
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backups.
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code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of GNU
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<application>tar</> consider it an error if a file is changed while
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<application>tar</> is copying it. Fortunately, GNU
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<application>tar</> versions 1.16 and later exit with <literal>1</>
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if files changed during the backup, and <literal>2</> for other errors.
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