Re: [Help-tar] mode/mod time differs issues with tar verify

[toby]

Ignore this, it was only failing when run from a cron job and it was  
running an old version of tar by accident due to having two versions  
of tar on the system.

thanks anyway.

Quoting address@hidden:

> Hi,
>
> I have a backup script which backups my system to a LTO tape drive,  
> it has been running fine for years, on ugprading to Centos 6.5 (tar  
> 1.26) I am now getting errors when verifiying.
>
> tar command is :
>
> tar --label="$backuplabel" -cvWf /dev/nst0 $directorieslist
>
> There errors are mainly :
>
> Mode differs
> Mod time differs
>
> but also quite a few :
>
> Uid differs
>
> The backup is done on a static directory (it has been rsynced from  
> the main working system) so the mod/mod times etc wont change  
> between writing and verify.
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this or a way to debug how the  
> mode/mod times/uids are different?
>
> I have tested on three different versions of tar (1.20, 1.26 and  
> latest 1.27) all with the same issue.
>
> thanks
> Toby