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Hi

I have done a search for this but couldn't find much on it.

I am creating a tar file with the command below

Code:

tar cvf /export/home/user/backup/*

Will this is being created I have a job spooling to 5 texts files in the following directory /export/home/user/backup/STATS/

The tar files creates (seems to be complete) but does not return an exit code of 0. Therefore my calling script fails.

My question is does the tar command care if something is spooling to the directory it is backing up. My understanding was that it takes a snapshot of the files at a point in time.

can u put a find condition b4 using tar so tht u get all the file depending upon the mtime or atime. and then tar them something like this :-

Code:

find . -mtime +10 -print -exec tar -cvf /export/home/user/backup*