tar dies on making tape backup

[Jaime]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Micah wrote:
> I had the same problem recently and Google told me to look for  
> files with malformed dates. I used "find" to search for files dated  
> before Jan 1, 1970, and found one dated 1901. As soon as I  
> "touch"ed the problematic file, tar worked.

	Many thanks.  When I get to work tomorrow, I'll use find.  I'll have  
to check the man page for the right parameters (I don't usually  
search by date) but I think that I can handle that.  ;)

	Anyway, like I said, the help is much appreciated.

							Jaime