Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This has puzzled me too. Is there a way of passing the equivalent of tar's --exclude file_pattern at star, rather than a file containing a list of files to be excluded? I have been reading the -F,-FF ... but have failed to understand it so far :(

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This has puzzled me too. Is there a way of passing the equivalent of tar's --exclude file_pattern at star, rather than a file containing a list of files to be excluded? I have been reading the -F,-FF ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs=

[gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Chef
Hello ! Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is that a proven/working method ? / Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Dale
Thomas Chef wrote: Hello ! Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is that a proven/working method ? / Thomas A lot of people

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Jacques Montier
Thomas Chef a gentiment tapote: Hello ! Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is that a proven/working method ? / Thomas Hi, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote: Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is that a proven/working method ? Be very careful as GNU tar

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:24:00AM +0200, Penguin Lover Thomas Chef squawked: Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Personally I use app-backup/rdiff-backup and dump not to DVD, but to an external harddrive stored in

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote: Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote: Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote: Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100 multi-volume archives? No, just a couple of douzend so far. My lib takes 8 cardridges.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100 multi-volume archives? No, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it look promising. Star

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs=