Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to save the backup on a USB drive on /media/sda1. Therefore I ran > > > star as root like this: > > > > > > # cd /dev/sda1 > > > # star -xattr -H=exustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /media/sda1 > > > > This is a useless command line as -C /media/sda1 is executed after > > archiving /media/hda5. > > Does this mean that I should have '-C /media/sda1' before '/media/hda5' ?
Using absolute paths (as you did) is a really bad idea and '-C /media/sda1' before '/media/hda5' will not help you.... -C performs a chdir before processing the next arg Useful is something like '-C /media/sda1' "." If you like to do backups, you should tell star to archive more meta data by using -dump instead of H=exustar. -dump includes H=exustar but is more. There are several examples in the man page and I still don't know what caused your real problems. A frequent problem on Linux is that not all files to support a specific feature are present or that you first need to activate them. Did you use extended attributes with other programs before? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
