Using gnu tar. This happens both if I pipe the output of BackupPC_createTar directly to tar and if I untar from the file. More specifically, the tar command I am using is "tar -xf - -C MYDIRECTORY". No compression and the archive is staying on the same server.
Stephen On 08/11/2010 12:33 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:23:59AM -0500, Stephen Gelman wrote: >> I am running BackupPC 3.1.0 on Nexenta. It seems to be working for the >> most part. I am having a problem with BackupPC_tarCreate. I am trying >> to create a tar of a 30gb backup. The tar I create ends up being 30gb, >> but when extracted it only takes up 5gb and is missing a lot of files. >> I can restore the missing files using the web interface, so I know that >> they are being backed up and that BackupPC has permission to access >> them. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? The only clue I have >> is that I repeatedly get "tar: Skipping to next header" when untaring >> the file. > Which tar are you using to do the restore: native solaris /usr/bin/tar > (or /usr/sbin/static/tar), gnu tar, pax? How are you supplying the 30 > GB file to the restoring tar, stdin as a file on the command line ...? > > Do you have any compression in the picture? Also are you moving > between architectures or little to big endian machines? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
