There is something *very* wrong with either the tar used to make the archive, or the tar used to restore. I wouldn't trust anything it outputs at all.
What version of tar on both ends? Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead? Or using BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI? -Robin On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote: > 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/ -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
