tar.bz2 skipping file???

[WhyCali]

I'm creating a directory backup using "tar -cjvf backup.tar.bz2 dirname" all has been working perfectly, but lately one particular file is not making it into the archive. I noticed the file permissions were slightly different, but I changed them to 0644. Still tar is skipping the file and I'm not sure why.

One more thing. I made a copy of the file, in the same directory but used a ".old" extension rather than ".php". The .old file IS making it into the archive, but the .php file is not. I've even deleted the .php file entirely and created a new one... didn't help.

Any ideas on what could be preventing tar from including this file?

thanks!

Mike

[hwttdz]

What if you try /bin/tar both with the whole directory and again with only the file which is being passed over.