tar unreliable over NFS?

From: Paul Coene (drool_at_noudess.droolsretreat.com)
Date: 03/27/05

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    Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:17:31 GMT

    Greetings. I am using FC3.

    I have a local tape drive that I backup an NFS mounted directory with. Both
    machines are running FC3. The tar fails at least once with:

    tar: <dirname>: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

    each time I run the backup. This is a very large directory and it can take
    hours to fail. It's a multiple tape backup. Sometimes it fails early,
    sometimes late...

    The directory is seemingly random that it fails on.

    I verified - the directory in question is completely skipped, and it messes
    up the multi volume backup so that it won't go past the affected volume
    on a tar -tf.

    Ideas? 

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