[Bug-tar] Bug report

[Branimir Buljan]

Hi,

I got some nasty bug with tar archiver:

  I'm using it with VisualBuild (http://www.kinok.com) for backup of
my SourceSafe database. As there a lot of files in it, tar is
obvious choice. I had about ten databases I want to backup every
day and I'm using windows scheduler to start VisualBuild script.
And always, in the middle of the night, tar returns an error code
while processing one of the databases (always the same one, but not on
the same file). And that databases is the not the first one processed.
I have this script running without problems for a month or so, and this
started to happen ten about days ago.
  But! When I start the script by myself (without scheduler) I cannot
force it to crash; it always archives all databases successfully.

This is how the tar was invoked from the script:
"c:\Program Files\Bin\tar" -cvf "Envox 6.1.tar" "Envox 6.1"

And this is output (two examples):
====================================================================
Envox 6.1/data/v/vjnfaaaa.a
Envox 6.1/data/v/vjngaaaa
Envox 6.1/data/v/vjngaaaa.a
Envox 6.1/data/v/vjnhaaaa
Envox 6.1/data/v/vjnhaaaa.a
Envox 6.1/data/v/vjoaaaaa

Process completed with exit code -1073741510
04.11.2004 23:00:19: Step 'Envox 6.1' failed
04.11.2004 23:00:19: Build canceled by user.
====================================================================

====================================================================
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmfaaaa
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmfaaaa.a
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmgaaaa
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmgaaaa.a
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmhaaaa
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmhaaaa.a
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbncaaaa
Envox 6.1/data/k/kbncaaaa.a

Process completed with exit code -1073741510
09.11.2004 01:59:02: Step 'Envox 6.1' failed
09.11.2004 01:59:02: Build canceled by user.
====================================================================


If you need any additional info or test I will be glad to help you!

Best regards,
--
Branimir Buljan
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Tel: +385-1-3031 525