Graham Nicholls wrote:

> Tar is a great backup utility - except that it has only 2 exit statuses -
> 0
> or 1, which isn't useful. Suppose you just get a warning - which sets the
> exit status to 1 - the backup is still fine. A catastrophic tape error
> leaving the backup useless still exits with 1, so what do people do about
> monitoring scripts to ensure success? PLEASE don't suggest another
> utility, unless its cpio (anyone know about the exit statuses of cpio?).
> I want to use tar because its free, scriptable, standard, etc.
>
> Thanks
> Graham Nicholls

What warnings do you get? You should strive to make your operations warning
free.
Eric