[Help-tar] Unable to Fork

[Delphine Kinvig]

Hello, 
I would appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Are you familiar with an error message,
"Cannot fork:  Function not implemented"?
I've checked the documentation and can't find it.

I am trying to backup a series of files in a directory using an 
environment variable as part of the  target file name.  The operating 
system is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.  

The actual command looks like:

> rem Set the path, retrieve today's date to be stored in a junk file, assign 
> the
> rem environment variable called FDATE then delete the junk file.
> path=%path%;c:\extras\fdate;c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin;
> cd\
> FDATE /Ff /At /Occyymmdd /P"@SET FDATE=" >JUNKTEMP.BAT
> call JUNKTEMP.BAT
> del  JUNKTEMP.BAT
> rem
> rem Change directory to locate MYSQL database, back up the database to
> rem E drive
> cd c:\mysql\data\UManit
> tar cvzf e:\OnSite MYSQL Backups\%FDATE%.tar.gz *
> rem exit
FDATE works correctly and the error message follows the tar 
command.

> C:\>rem Change directory to locate MYSQL database, back up the database to
> 
> C:\>rem E drive
> 
> C:\>cd c:\mysql\data\UManit
> 
> C:\mysql\data\UManit>tar cvzf e:\OnSite MYSQL Backups\20040127.tar.gz *
> tar: Cannot fork: Function not implemented
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Thanks.

Delphine Kinvig
Programmer-Analyst Administrative Systems
Information Services & Technology
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University of Manitoba
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