Thank you for contributing to the thread:
@MichaelFelt : tar is recommended by
oracle for cold backup. it is widely used for this purpose ( backup ) otherwise what you have mentioned is very reasonable.
@bakunin : thank you for the great valuable tips
7. How to find out if you have any errors during creating a tar
Suppose you are making a tar file of a filesystem which has several directories and files ( 100GB )
you execute the command
# tar -cvf tarfile_name.tar /filesystem
this is will start creating the tar file and will take several minutes/hours
how can you find out , if you have any errors during creating the tar archive :
errors like => tar: 0511-825 The file 'file' is too large
or any other errors ?
8. Is there a way to verify if all the files have been included in the tar achieve ?
9. How to list the number of files in the tar file ?