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Old 06-18-2013
What is solution for this error "tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors"?

Does anyone know what is solution for this error ?
Code:
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

from last 3 days I am trying to take backup of home/user directory getting again and again same error please anyone give me solution
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Old 06-18-2013
please post the previous errors ...
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Old 06-18-2013
I don't know which is previous error
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Old 06-18-2013
Post the tar command along with the options that you used.
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Old 06-18-2013
Code:
tar -cvzpf /media/Iomega/BACKUP/BACKUP_USER/a_new.tgz  user/

Code:
tar -zcvf /media/Iomega/BACKUP/BACKUP_USER/a1_new.tar.gz  user/

above both I tried
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Old 06-18-2013
Try switching off the verbose option -v and check if you can find an error somewhere during the archiving process.
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Old 06-18-2013
just now I received this error

Code:
tar: user/.cache/gnome-system-monitor.user.3010987174: socket ignored

still it is in process
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