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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:27:04
Message-Id: 4875817E.3010901@bellsouth.net
1 Hi,
2
3 Thought I would move this problem to a new thread. It may not be
4 related to the DVD itself. This is what I am currently testing. I used
5 Kbackup to create a tarball in my /backup directory. I have the most
6 basic setup for Kbackup at the moment. It creates the tarball but does
7 not compress the files themselves but creates a .tar file. I think it
8 takes the files, places it in the tarball then compresses it or
9 something. I'm not real sure how Kbackup does its thing. I have it set
10 to create tarballs and the limit is 4.4Gbs. I set it just short of a
11 full 4.7Gb.
12
13 I then tried to untar the file to a directory to test if it will untar
14 it or not. It failed. I guess you figured that since I am posting this
15 problem. I'm just going to post info as I go along here. Feel free to
16 ask for more if you need something else. This is the files that Kbackup
17 generates:
18
19 -rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 4295682560 2008-07-09 20:15
20 Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_1.tar
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 4295361024 2008-07-09 20:52
22 Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_2.tar
23
24 This is what I get when I try to untar the #1 tarball:
25
26 root@smoker / # tar -xvf /backup/Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_1.tar -C
27 /backup/test/
28 data/
29 data/322229.gif
30 data/Address-book-2006-12-27.ldif
31 data/alegis-group-sears8.21.03.sxw
32 data/bookmarks.html
33 data/Camera-pics/
34 data/Camera-pics/2006-Christmas/
35 data/Camera-pics/2006-Christmas/Christmas-0001.jpeg
36 tar: Skipping to next header
37 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
38 root@smoker / #
39
40 I did not shorten that. It is the whole thing. It did not do much and
41 that file is coming off the hard drive not a DVD. Also note, there is a
42 huge list of files that are missing from that tarball. Basically, that
43 tarball is about worthless. This is from the #2 tarball:
44
45 root@smoker / # tar -xvf /backup/Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_2.tar -C
46 /backup/test/
47 data/Gentoo-stuff/livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso
48 tar: Skipping to next header
49 < SNIP a long list of files >
50 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
51 root@smoker / #
52
53 I didn't see any other errors in the looong list of files. Also, it did
54 untar a lot of files but I really don't know how to tell if it did them
55 all or not. It appears they are all there but I'm not 100% sure. It
56 certainly did better than the first tarball for sure.
57
58 Since I didn't use a DVD at all in this process, is this a Kbackup
59 problem or a tar problem? That is the only two programs I used so I
60 assume it would be one of those two. Also note, I use ext3 on that
61 partition. All my others are reiserfs but everything done was on ext3.
62
63 Other info that may matter:
64
65 [ebuild R ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha41 USE="unicode" 0 kB
66 [ebuild R ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.2-r2 USE="encode -debug -gcdmaster
67 -pccts" 0 kB
68 [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 USE="alsa arts dvdr dvdread encode
69 hal mp3 vorbis -css -debug -emovix -ffmpeg -flac -musepack -musicbrainz
70 -sndfile -vcd -xinerama" LINGUAS="-af -ar -bg -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da
71 -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja
72 -ka -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -se -sk -sr
73 -sr@Latn -sv -ta -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
74
75 root@smoker / # uname -r
76 2.6.23-gentoo-r8
77 root@smoker / #
78
79 That is the latest kernel that I can get to work correctly. 2.6.24-r8
80 makes KDE slow as leap year for some reason. No clue, just went back to
81 what worked for me.
82
83 Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions?
84
85 Thanks
86
87 Dale
88
89 :-) :-)
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>