On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:26:54 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 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 moment. It creates the tarball > but does not compress the files themselves but creates a .tar file. > I think it takes the files, places it in the tarball then compresses > it or something. I'm not real sure how Kbackup does its thing. I > have it set to create tarballs and the limit is 4.4Gbs. I set it > just short of a full 4.7Gb. > > I then tried to untar the file to a directory to test if it will > untar it or not. It failed. I guess you figured that since I am > posting this problem. I'm just going to post info as I go along > here. Feel free to ask for more if you need something else. This is > the files that Kbackup generates: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 4295682560 2008-07-09 20:15 > Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_1.tar > -rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 4295361024 2008-07-09 20:52 > Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_2.tar > > This is what I get when I try to untar the #1 tarball: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # tar -xvf /backup/Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_1.tar -C > /backup/test/ > data/ > data/322229.gif > data/Address-book-2006-12-27.ldif > data/alegis-group-sears8.21.03.sxw > data/bookmarks.html > data/Camera-pics/ > data/Camera-pics/2006-Christmas/ > data/Camera-pics/2006-Christmas/Christmas-0001.jpeg > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > I did not shorten that. It is the whole thing. It did not do much > and that file is coming off the hard drive not a DVD. Also note, > there is a huge list of files that are missing from that tarball. > Basically, that tarball is about worthless. This is from the #2 > tarball: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # tar -xvf /backup/Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_2.tar -C > /backup/test/ > data/Gentoo-stuff/livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso > tar: Skipping to next header > < SNIP a long list of files > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > I didn't see any other errors in the looong list of files. Also, it > did untar a lot of files but I really don't know how to tell if it > did them all or not. It appears they are all there but I'm not 100% > sure. It certainly did better than the first tarball for sure. > > 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 everything done was on > ext3. > > Other info that may matter: > > [ebuild R ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha41 USE="unicode" 0 kB > [ebuild R ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.2-r2 USE="encode -debug > -gcdmaster -pccts" 0 kB > [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 USE="alsa arts dvdr dvdread > encode hal mp3 vorbis -css -debug -emovix -ffmpeg -flac -musepack > -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd -xinerama" LINGUAS="-af -ar -bg -br -bs > -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -he > -hi -hu -is -it -ja -ka -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt > -pt_BR -ru -rw -se -sk -sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN > -zh_TW" 0 kB > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # uname -r > 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > That is the latest kernel that I can get to work correctly. > 2.6.24-r8 makes KDE slow as leap year for some reason. No clue, just > went back to what worked for me. > > Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions? > > Thanks > > Dale > > :-) :-)
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. AFAIK Kbackup has nothing to do with GNU Tar. It utilizes KDE's KTar class, so I wouldn't seek the problem in GNU Tar (/bin/tar). Actually you can easyly make e test: tar cpf my_huge_archive.tar --format=posix "/path/to/many/big/files" tar xpf my_huge_archive.tar --format=posix -C "/path/to/test/dir/" I bet it would work. More info: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
