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 two. Also note, I > > > use ext3 on that partition. All my others are reiserfs but > > > everything done was on ext3. Those are not my words. Please, quote correctly. > > From other hints, this seems to be a problem on both sides: > > - The built in tar archiver is far too dumb and does not > support enough features for backups > > - GNU tar often does not unpack POSIX compliant tar achives > and even sometimes has problems with it's own non-standard > archives. Care to prove this claim? > > You may like to check the POSIX compliance of the tar archive you > created to verify at which side your problem is located: [--snip--] > > > 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: > May I ask why did you snipped the quote exactly where the correct syntax was shown and replaced it with the incorrect one that follows!? > An important reason not to use kbackup. > > Some examples: > /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ > gtar -cf - /etc/passwd | tartest > gtar: Removing leading `/' from member names > 0.014r 0.000u 0.000s 0% 0M 0+0k 0st 0+0io 0pf+0w > tartest 1.10 (i386-pc-solaris2.11) (^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Are you using Gentoo at all or you just love to abuse its mailing list?) > > Copyright (C) 2002 Jörg Schilling > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There > is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > Testing for POSIX.1-1990 TAR compliance... > Warning: illegal character ' ' (0x20) found in field 't_magic[5]' > Warning: illegal character ' ' (0x20) found in field 't_version[0]' [--snip--] Examples of what? Of your incompetence to use GNU Tar? Check this out: tar -cf - --format=posix /etc | tartest tartest 1.12 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2002 J�rg Schilling This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Testing for POSIX.1-1990 TAR compliance... tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Archive uses POSIX.1-2001 extensions. The correctness of the size field cannot be checked for this reason. Found 1st EOF block at 266978 Found 2nd EOF block at 266979 No deviations from POSIX.1-1990 TAR standard found. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It seems your own tool disagrees with you. Read this: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/tar/posix.html ...and stop spreading FUD! -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
