From aabf7f41bdbc6378bf8b3fdf0191f6ad605294ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:20:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs that GNU tar versions >=1.16 exit with 1 on files changed, 2 on other errors. --- doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml index a609b0c941..fe2b33c6e6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml @@ -734,13 +734,11 @@ SELECT pg_stop_backup(); complaints of this sort from real errors. For example, some versions of rsync return a separate exit code for vanished source files, and you can write a driver script to accept this exit - code as a non-error case. Also, - some versions of GNU tar consider it an error if a file - is changed while tar is copying it. There does not seem - to be any very convenient way to distinguish this error from other types - of errors, other than manual inspection of tar's messages. - GNU tar is therefore not the best tool for making base - backups. + code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of GNU + tar consider it an error if a file is changed while + tar is copying it. Fortunately, GNU + tar versions 1.16 and later exit with 1 + if files changed during the backup, and 2 for other errors. -- 2.39.5