Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:39:17 +0300 Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/08, Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then see if I get around later to try with cdrtools instead of wodim (cdrkit). Ok, my final conclusion on splitpipe: it compiles but won't work for me. I've produced

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Monday 14 July 2008 08:05:03 Daniel Iliev wrote: Dirk, Arttu: - Should we get off-list on this subject or at least open a new thread? Let's take it to b.g.o. Bye... Dirk -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-14 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/14/08, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arttu: - Can you, please, post the command you used to make the test backups? During weekend I used pretty much the spells given on splitpipe's examples page [1], only changing the directory given to tar and the drive device (and speed for

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-13 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/12/08, Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then see if I get around later to try with cdrtools instead of wodim (cdrkit). Ok, my final conclusion on splitpipe: it compiles but won't work for me. I've produced about a dozen coasters while having tried some combinations of two different

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb Daniel Iliev: Any help will be much appreciated. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230813 Will take a look this weekend. Don't even get it compiled manually :-( Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/12/08, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb Daniel Iliev: Any help will be much appreciated. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230813 Will take a look this weekend. Don't even get it

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 12. Juli 2008 schrieb Arttu V.: Actually, splitpipe compiled pretty much as such on amd64 for me Hmm, maybe a compiler issue. Which gcc version are you using? I'm using 4.3.1. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/12/08, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 12. Juli 2008 schrieb Arttu V.: Actually, splitpipe compiled pretty much as such on amd64 for me Hmm, maybe a compiler issue. Which gcc version are you using? I'm using 4.3.1. gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1) -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: Ah! Now I got it. tar -M. I've missed that part. I'm sorry. No need to be sorry. BTW there is a tool called splipipe [1] that can emulate the behaviour of tar -M without packet writing. I've used it and it worked perfectly. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:12:50 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't know that tool, looks nice. Would you mind creating a new ebuild request for it in b.g.o? So we've two methods now, great. Actually I have already done this [1] a few days ago. Unfortunately it is the

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: Ah! Now I got it. tar -M. I've missed that part. I'm sorry. No need to be sorry. Depends I strongly recommend not tu use the GNU tar -M extension as GNU tar has a significant probility to not

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb Daniel Iliev: Any help will be much appreciated. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230813 Will take a look this weekend. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Dale
Daniel Iliev wrote: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=44998 NOTE:Due to a KDE3 limitation, it can only backup files each up to 4GB in size (on 32bit platforms at least; therefore larger files are skipped) If your platform happens to be a 32bit one... Ah! One more thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:11:29 -0500, Dale wrote: OK. Question. What is a good program that allows me to select certain directories to backup and then create DVD slices that I can burn to DVD? Kdar. Is there an echo in here? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick All things being equal, fat people use

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I didn't use a DVD at all in this process, is this a Kbackup problem or a tar problem? That is the only two programs I used so I assume it would be one of those two. Also note, I use ext3 on that partition. All my others are reiserfs but

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:11:29 -0500, Dale wrote: OK. Question. What is a good program that allows me to select certain directories to backup and then create DVD slices that I can burn to DVD? Kdar. If you use throw away backups, you may live with

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:02:51 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Kdar. If you use throw away backups, you may live with a non-standard archive format. If you like to archive your backups, better use a standard compliant archive format that grants you the ability to unpack even many years

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Dale: Thought I would move this problem to a new thread. It may not be related to the DVD itself. This is what I am currently testing. I used Kbackup to create a tarball in my /backup directory. I have the most basic setup for Kbackup at the

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Hmm, never tried it myself so I don't know wether it works or not, but what about enabling CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD in the kernel and let tar write to the device directly? Another option could be to use bacula, but that may be oversized.

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I burn my backups onto bootable live DVDs that include dar, as well as anything else I may need. When x86 compatible hardware is close to extinction, I will have to rethink this, if I'm still alive. Having said that, I've never looked at star, maybe I

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Hmm, never tried it myself so I don't know wether it works or not, but what about enabling CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD in the kernel and let tar write to the device directly? Another option could be to use bacula,

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I burn my backups onto bootable live DVDs that include dar, as well as anything else I may need. When x86 compatible hardware is close to extinction, I will have to rethink this, if I'm still alive. Having said that, I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:01:02 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I didn't use a DVD at all in this process, is this a Kbackup problem or a tar problem? That is the only two programs I used so I assume it would be one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:01:02 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I didn't use a DVD at all in this process, is this a Kbackup problem or a tar problem? That is the only two programs

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:07:17 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I burn my backups onto bootable live DVDs that include dar, as well as anything else I may need. When x86 compatible hardware is close to extinction, I will have to rethink this, if I'm still alive. Having said that, I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:06:06 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Dale: Thought I would move this problem to a new thread. It may not be related to the DVD itself. This is what I am currently testing. I used Kbackup to create a tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb Daniel Iliev: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:06:06 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, never tried it myself so I don't know wether it works or not, but what about enabling CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD in the kernel and let tar write to the device

Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups

2008-07-10 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:05:55 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb Daniel Iliev: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:06:06 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, never tried it myself so I don't know wether it works or not, but what about