Hi, I unpacked the tar on the backup server itself, which is also the host on which I used firefox to download the tarfile.
The only tar I found is version 1.23 (corresponding to the debian/testing tar package 1.23-2.1) However, my primary problem is not tar. The primary problem is that I have reproducable crashes in Backuppc, when trying to restore some files of the backup, while other files can be restored without problem. I was failing restoration to o Windows Vista + ntfs + smb o Windows Vista + ntfs + rsyncd / Cygwin o Linux (GRML) + ntfs + rsync via ssh + (mounting nfts in rw-mode via ntfs-3g) What does work is: o downloading the "problem file" via tar o restoring to localhost (Linux (Debian) + rsync via ssh) I was close to blaming NFTS, but since I can untar the file to NTFS via the GRML boot, I'm not sure this is right. M. On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:36:35 Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/