Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1292564
cannot pipe a tarball reliably
Last modified: 2016-07-20 04:34:27 EDT
Description of problem: GZipping on the fly sometimes from tar when making a backup stalls gzip in a loop somewhere. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 22 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: Puts backup files where you are standing. (with pwd) Do this for every full backup set: tar -cP --exclude-backups --exclude-caches-all --exclude-vcs --exclude=.cache -f backup.tar /home/<you>/ for incremental sets(NOTE container edits backup the whole container): NOW=`date +%d-%b` echo $NOW > backup-date NEWER="--newer-mtime `cat backup-date`" tar $NEWER -cP --exclude-backups --exclude-caches-all --exclude-vcs --exclude=.cache -f backup-inc.tar /home/<you>/ Actual results: you should be able to use the z for GZIP option but it stalls for some reason when using it.Obviously you can gzip the tarball once the process finishes. Expected results: I want to zip this on the fly when I make the tarball. Additional info: In relations to Bug 1283843 when making a backup with --newer option for tar.
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
Hi Richard. I was trying your reproducer but I am not able reproduce it on my F22 system as You described - but it's possible that I do something wrong. Are You still able to reproduce it? ---- I am in ~/Documents/ $ NOW=`date +%d-%b` $ echo $NOW > backup-date $ NEWER="--newer-mtime `cat backup-date`" $ tar $NEWER -cP --exclude-backups --exclude-caches-all --exclude-vcs --exclude=.cache -zf backup-inc.tar ~/Documents --- Just I am not using home directory but I don't see here difference.