On 8/28/06, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
I tried to backup my whole partition with tar:
tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz .
but when testing the archive result with
tar -tzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz
It ends with the following error, without explaining what's wrong:
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I thought about it and think the reason might be that I'm backing up to a
vfat volume, which might have some serious limits on file size (but
unfortunately, that's my only backup option now).
If so, how can I backup my nearly 20G partition using vfat volume?
rar can do multi-volume but can it understand all the special Unix files,
symlink, hard links, named pipes, dev, etc?
tar can do multi-volume too, but "You should only type 'y' after you
have changed the tape; otherwise tar will write over the volume it just
finished.".
Any of the *commonly used* archive tool can achieve this?
Hello,
maybe you could try with dd.
And if you have partitions, that would be easier.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/partion_hda.img bs=1k, for example.
Best regards,
Sergio Cuellar
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