This is what you said Eric Warnke > Unfortunately I have looked high and low, there is just no good way to > read > sparse files intelligently. Whoever though of providing the functionality > without an API to step through the block mapping was a moron. It is truly > a > brain dead technology. At least there is a fcntl under Win32 to deal with > it with some intelligence. > > Cheers, > Eric > > > > On 4/26/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> "Scott Ruckh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > This is what you said Eric Warnke >> > > >> > > Oops tar -Scf lowercase s is somthing else. >> > > >> > > Cheers, >> > > Eric >> > >> > Good idea. >> > >> > I tried: >> > tar -Sc -f /var/log/lastlog.tar /var/log/lastlog >> > >> > But it appears to do much the same as bacula. It too must read >> through >> > the entire file, so it does not speed things up. >> >> The only program I'm aware of that will back up sparse files efficiently >> is dump. But dump isn't cross-platform - not even a little. >>
I want to thank everyone for their help. I am not even sure why this file is created this way, seems like a strange implementation from someone on the outside looking in. I will just learn to deal with /var/log/lastlog until something better come up. Thanks. Scott ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
