Don't let backups fail on soft errors from tar

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Erik Hensema

July 24, 2017 14:16

Tar will give an exit status 1 when some files differ from the versions on disk. For instance, when during a backup a file gets truncated, tar will exit with status 1, after completing the rest of the backup.

https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC33

Please let the backup fail only when tar exits with status > 1.

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  Jon Fernandez August 01, 2017 15:42

  Yes please fix. 

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