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Tar problems with jpgs
by Tom Haddon on Thursday October 23, @05:38AM

Hi,

Does anyone know how to help me out with a rather bizarre problem? I have a cron job that's tar-ing and gzipping a directory (for a website), and it runs fine if I run it from the command line as root, but if I run it from cron (as root - in the /etc/cron.daily/ folder), it consistently fails on certain jpgs. The error message when unzipping and untar-ing the file to check for errors is "unexpected end of file" or something similar.

Here's the command:

tar -zcvpf /var/backup/site.tgz --directory /var/www/html .

Any help appreciated!!

Thanks, Tom

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