Backing up whole disk
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? please help. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up whole disk
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 -- Meine Hoffnung soll mich leiten Durch die Tage ohne Dich Und die Liebe soll mich tragen Wenn der Schmerz die Hoffnung bricht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up whole disk
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:48:50PM +0200, T 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.. I've done multivolume vackups ont disk with tar. There's an option to specify the output file -- you need to specify this multiple times, once for each output file, and then it sequences through them. Make sure you have enough of them, though. One trouble, though. When using multiple files like this, and specifying a max output size per file, it will not allow compression. At least it didn't lst time I tried it. Any of the *commonly used* archive tool can achieve this? please help. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up whole disk
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:35:17 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: 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. hi, thanks Sergio for your post. I'm replying for your own good. Please read my OP again and you will know that your solution won't work. And I've gave the reason in OP too. hendrik, thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try. tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
