Update: On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:16:01 Marcus Hardt wrote: > Update: > > tar xf restore.tar will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big
fails > cat restore.tar | tar x seems to work fails But: using the 'i' option for -i, --ignore-zeros ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF) makes tar wander through the archive even thought it might have detected EOF markers (i.e. "two consecutive zero-filled records" according to the wikipedia page of the tar format) I observed several warnings in my cmdline: tar tfi restore.tar |wc -l tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors 387781 I can only hope this works and helps others. M. > And I thought windows was terrible... > > M. > > On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > btw: this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same > > > errors using smbclient and rsync via ssh. > > > > But windows specific? Are you sure the windows user has write access > > and the file isn't locked by something else having it open? > > > > > And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how super > > > great backuppc was... > > > > There is at least the option of downloading an archive file through a > > browser and restoring from that. -- M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/