Bryen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:47 -0500, Adam Jimerson wrote: >> I need help figuring out how to get the YaST back up system be able to >> correctly back up my home partition. I had it set up and ran it, when the >> back up program finished I had two files one .tar and the other a .xml file. >> >> The thing that throws me off is that the .tar file is only 10 KB and the >> .xml >> file is 676 B when my home folder is 12 GB. By looks that does not look >> right, and when I run the System Restore and it complains about how the .tar >> file is not a correct back up file. > > have you looked at the contents of the tar file to see what exactly was > copied? > > tar -xvf tarfilename
Actually that would unpack the tarfile in your current directory. To just take a look, say "tar -tvf <filename>" or if you are in kde, right click on the file and select "open with ark" or "preview in archiver". Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
