topic Re: tar: cannot stat in Operating System - HP-UX

tar: cannot stat

Simon Qu — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:25:49 GMT

I got a tar error yesterday:
tar: cannot stat /home/data/CDQUOBX.dat. Not dumped.

What does it mean?
Thank you in advance.

Re: tar: cannot stat

Geoff Wild — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:28:52 GMT

It means it couldn't get a lock on that file - so it wasn't backed up.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: tar: cannot stat

Simon Qu — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:31:54 GMT

Then, how to fix it?
I backup this file every day and it worked fine except yesterday.

Re: tar: cannot stat

Geoff Wild — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:35:01 GMT

Well, you could do a fuser -cu on the file - to see if any process is using it...

lsof is another good utility....

If there is a process - you may need to stop it (gracefully if you can) via the app that is using it....

Maybe the process didn't release it - when it was supposed to...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: tar: cannot stat

Simon Hargrave — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:35:12 GMT

The application that uses that data file was running. You should shut your application down before the backup in order to have a valid backup.