Hello, I have no problems with Tiger tar. You should really make sure Parallels is not running during backups. Otherwise you will never get a valid backup. Is it just one file or does Parallels split disk images into smaller chunks like vmware?
Cheers, Torsten Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 23:28 schrieb James Ward: > This is OS X Tiger tar, so nothing new until Leopard... > > Does anyone know if OS X Tiger rsync takes care of resource forks? > > James > > On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: > > James writes: > >>> What version of tar is this? > >> > >> Tomm:/Users/user root# tar --version > >> tar (GNU tar) 1.14 +CVE-2006-0300 +CVE-2006-6097 > >> > >>> If it is not standard gnu tar, is > >>> there source available to look at? How big is the winxp.hdd > >>> file? > >> > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 8731151360 Jul 2 20:25 winxp.hdd > > > > tar 1.14 had a bug related to not correctly padding files that > > got smaller during archiving. Doing this: > > > > diff -bur tar-1.14/src/create.c tar-1.16.1/src/create.c > > > > shows this change: > > > > @@ -868,39 +1034,54 @@ > > quotearg_colon (st->orig_file_name), > > STRINGIFY_BIGINT (size_left, buf))); > > if (! ignore_failed_read_option) > > - exit_status = TAREXIT_FAILURE; > > - pad_archive (size_left); > > + exit_status = TAREXIT_DIFFERS; > > + pad_archive (size_left - (bufsize-count)); > > return dump_status_short; > > } > > } > > > > which I suspect is the change mentioned in the ChangeLog: > > > > 2005-05-12 Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * src/create.c (dump_regular_file): Correctly pad archive > > members > > that shrunk during archiving. Repored by Frank Heckenbach. > > > > So I recommend trying a newer version of tar. However, I don't know > > if OSX adds features for resource forks to tar, so the vanilla GNU > > tar might not handle resource forks. Does a newer OSX have a newer > > tar version? > > > > Craig > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
