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Update GNU tar error code documentation.

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Backpatch to 8.2.X.
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Bruce Momjian
2007-09-14 04:16:44 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.95 2006/12/01 03:29:15 tgl Exp $ --> <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.95.2.1 2007/09/14 04:16:44 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="backup"> <chapter id="backup">
<title>Backup and Restore</title> <title>Backup and Restore</title>
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complaints of this sort from real errors. For example, some versions complaints of this sort from real errors. For example, some versions
of <application>rsync</> return a separate exit code for <quote>vanished of <application>rsync</> return a separate exit code for <quote>vanished
source files</>, and you can write a driver script to accept this exit source files</>, and you can write a driver script to accept this exit
code as a non-error case. Also, code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of GNU
some versions of GNU <application>tar</> consider it an error if a file <application>tar</> consider it an error if a file was truncated while
is changed while <application>tar</> is copying it. There does not seem <application>tar</> is copying it. Fortunately, GNU
to be any very convenient way to distinguish this error from other types <application>tar</> versions 1.16 and later exits with <literal>1</>
of errors, other than manual inspection of <application>tar</>'s messages. if a file was changed during the backup, and <literal>2</> for other
GNU <application>tar</> is therefore not the best tool for making base errors.
backups.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>