Tar: 'Error exit delayed from previous errors'

[jean-paul martell]

I am getting this error message Tar: 'Error exit delayed from previous errors' when I try to tar a directly or backup my web directory. Is there a way to find out what this error means?

[Calvin K]

Tar is both a file format and the name of a program used to handle such files. Uncompressed tar archive files have names ending in ".tar". Unlike more recent archive formats. When you issue a tar command you can easily roll up a group of files. This eases the delivery of a group of files in per-session intensive applications such as the File Transfer Protocol and peer-to-peer applications.

[Lillebror]

tar: error exit delayed from previous errors indicated that disk problem. To check for disk problems, use the dmesg command and look at file /var/log/messages. The dmesg command is used to write the kernel messages in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems to standard output (which by default is the display screen). This error occur when file having changed while it was being read.

[Wynn]

To create an archive using tar, use a command

tar cvf alldocs.tar *.doc

which bundles all the files in the current directory that end with .doc into the alldocs.tar file. The tar backup program is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile.