[lug] tar and future timestamps

[D. Stimits]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> I am doing a tar over ssh to backup to a disk, when I do it, I am
> getting tar complaining about future timestamp errors.  I timesync the
> machines with rdate right before the backup, but the tar output says
> that the timestamp is in June.  Help.

I believe it is referring not to machine times, but to file times. If
you use find and grep for the date, you should be able to locate the
offending files.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Hugh
> 
> Relevant data:
> 
> >From the host that is backing up
> 
> Start time is Sun Apr 15 01:00:01 EDT 2001
> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:30
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:30
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:30
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:30
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:30
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:31
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:31
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:31
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:31
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:31
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:31
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 15:58:14
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 15:59:21
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:02:07
> tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-06-21 16:05:30
> 
> The current date on the machine being backed up
> Mon Apr 16 11:03:57 EDT 2001
> 
> the backup command
> /usr/bin/ssh host 'tar cf - /home'|(cd /backups/host;tar xf -)
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