[plug] cygwin tar errors at 'favorites' file

[Mike Holland]

On 27 Jan 2003, Daniel wrote:

> I had the great idea to use cygwin tar to backup ntfs files. 

Daniel,
you might be better off using a native win32 tar program, one that 
understands NTFS semantics, for backups. Also, tar format is designed for 
Unix, so there will be attributes lost if you backup and restore this way.
But if its just the file contents you need, then OK.

> I have manually removed the url.  
> Is there a way to set it up so it doesn't need manual intervention? 

What intervention? Did it stop waiting for keyboard input?

> It goes on to say - tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Does that mean the whole backup is flawed rather than just the input
> from that url file?

No, normally it means the opposite. Just the one file was not backed-up.


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