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On Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to |
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> moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I |
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> used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine |
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> it failed to do anything. (except use 30 minutes of CPU time...) |
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> MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/ |
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> tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive |
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> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors |
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> MacMini home # |
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> I'm currently running |
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> tar -tz /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 |
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> and it's been going 15 minutes without writing anything to the screen. |
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> I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure |
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> out how to untar but I'm really not sure. |
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> How do I best proceed? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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a different kernel? |
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I had a problem with systemresucecd a couple of weeks ago. Unpacking a tar file |
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with multi gb size took more than an hour - for 300mb. |
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I booted into my backup gentoo where untarring the whole thing took less .... |
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