On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:24:36PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 02:00 PM 1/12/2004, DAVID SPEAR you wrote: >>I am running cygwin under Win2K Pro SP4, and am having some trouble creating >>backups with the gnu tar 1.13.25 that came with my distribution. Specifically, >>I can make a full backup (of a directory) using: >> >>cygserver% tar -cf backup.tar -g /cygdrive/d/tmp/dumpdates-backup --ignore- >>failed-read -l -v /cygdrive/d/myfolder > >I assume you missed this in your search for info? > ><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01653.html>
That should be old news. The current version of tar is supposed to fix the problem. See: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-11/msg00009.html . So, we need the info that is mentioned at: http://cygwin.com/problems.html . -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
