Hi folks.

I have a lot of log files that change in size almost constantly, and i 
understand that when tar returns an error while trying to archive a file whose 
size has changed, the entire dump of the filesystem fails (i understand this 
problem exists regardless of what version of tar you are using, but please 
correct me if i am wrong).

Does anyone how to prevent tar from returning this error (whether a particular 
version of tar + flag, a hack, a patch, or whatever), and can you please send 
me the URL to this version/doc?

I have tried using dump instead of tar, but i suppose this will result in the 
same problem and it doesn't work anyway for reasons best addressed in a 
seperate e-mail.

I tried "googling" this problem, but to no avail.

cheers,
john.