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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite some |
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> experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. |
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Try the command lines from the example section in the man page ;-) |
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> The fs is shown to be 1.1G large: |
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> # df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> ... |
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> /dev/hda5 5.8G 1.1G 4.5G 20% /media/hda5 |
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> I want to save the backup on a USB drive on /media/sda1. Therefore I ran star |
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> as root like this: |
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> # cd /dev/sda1 |
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> # star -xattr -H=exustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /media/sda1 |
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This is a useless command line as -C /media/sda1 is executed after archiving |
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/media/hda5. |
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> After a lot of messages like these: |
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> star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr |
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> for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/dumpfilter'. |
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> star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr |
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> for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/ethtool'. |
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> star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr |
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> for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/traceroute6'. |
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> star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/tmp'. |
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> star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr |
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> for '/media/hda5/usr/share/firstboot/modules/rootpassword.py'. |
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There seems to be a problem with xattr support on your system. |
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Unfortunately, Linux allows you not to install a sufficiently complete OS |
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basesystem. |
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Make sure that not only star supports xattrs. |
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> ... it eventually completes. What puzzles me is the size of the star archive, |
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> which compared to a vanilla tar archive is massive: |
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> # ls -la /media/sda1 |
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> total 17294256 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 4096 Feb 1 13:01 . |
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> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Feb 1 11:45 .. |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 932474880 Dec 6 13:50 hda5_root.star |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 867123200 Dec 6 13:26 hda5_root.tar |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14486097920 Feb 1 13:13 hda5_root1.star |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 940288000 Feb 1 10:42 hda5_root1.tar |
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> ... |
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> Is this difference in size between the hda5_root1.tar and hda5_root1.star |
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> expected? I also show above the previous back up I did as a comparison |
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> (although I cannot recall exactly what options I chose to run star with). |
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As I don't know what's in both files, I cannot comment. |
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If you create a tar archive with POSIX.1-2001 extensions, you get at least |
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1kB of additional meta-data per archived file. |
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GNU tar does not support Linux specific extensions... |
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Jörg |
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