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  1. Bug #1243367
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Comment 4 for bug 1243367

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Don Hirst (dvhirst865) wrote :

It is now going on 5 years and this bug is still alive and well. I'm trying to migrate off of 14.04.5, and need to use tar for creating backups of folders and files to analyze for migration purposes. This bug is getting in the way of my work. I copied the live folder / files to an intermediate folder / files, and tried to use tar on that, no luck; it errors out almost immediately.

I am running as root and trying to create an archive of /etc.
The error says: tar: ./.: file changed as we read it

My instance is running as a VM in VBox

SCP: Ubuntu 14.04.5, up-to-date
TAR: tar --version says: tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1

Suggestions welcomed.