Hi,
Thought I would move this problem to a new thread. It may not be
related to the DVD itself. This is what I am currently testing. I used
Kbackup to create a tarball in my /backup directory. I have the most
basic setup for Kbackup at the moment. It creates the tarball but does
not compress the files themselves but creates a .tar file. I think it
takes the files, places it in the tarball then compresses it or
something. I'm not real sure how Kbackup does its thing. I have it set
to create tarballs and the limit is 4.4Gbs. I set it just short of a
full 4.7Gb.
I then tried to untar the file to a directory to test if it will untar
it or not. It failed. I guess you figured that since I am posting this
problem. I'm just going to post info as I go along here. Feel free to
ask for more if you need something else. This is the files that Kbackup
generates:
-rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 4295682560 2008-07-09 20:15
Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 4295361024 2008-07-09 20:52
Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_2.tar
This is what I get when I try to untar the #1 tarball:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # tar -xvf /backup/Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_1.tar -C
/backup/test/
data/
data/322229.gif
data/Address-book-2006-12-27.ldif
data/alegis-group-sears8.21.03.sxw
data/bookmarks.html
data/Camera-pics/
data/Camera-pics/2006-Christmas/
data/Camera-pics/2006-Christmas/Christmas-0001.jpeg
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I did not shorten that. It is the whole thing. It did not do much and
that file is coming off the hard drive not a DVD. Also note, there is a
huge list of files that are missing from that tarball. Basically, that
tarball is about worthless. This is from the #2 tarball:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # tar -xvf /backup/Data_2008.07.09-20.11.01_2.tar -C
/backup/test/
data/Gentoo-stuff/livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso
tar: Skipping to next header
< SNIP a long list of files >
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I didn't see any other errors in the looong list of files. Also, it did
untar a lot of files but I really don't know how to tell if it did them
all or not. It appears they are all there but I'm not 100% sure. It
certainly did better than the first tarball for sure.
Since I didn't use a DVD at all in this process, is this a Kbackup
problem or a tar problem? That is the only two programs I used so I
assume it would be one of those two. Also note, I use ext3 on that
partition. All my others are reiserfs but everything done was on ext3.
Other info that may matter:
[ebuild R ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha41 USE="unicode" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.2-r2 USE="encode -debug -gcdmaster
-pccts" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 USE="alsa arts dvdr dvdread encode
hal mp3 vorbis -css -debug -emovix -ffmpeg -flac -musepack -musicbrainz
-sndfile -vcd -xinerama" LINGUAS="-af -ar -bg -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da
-de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja
-ka -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -se -sk -sr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # uname -r
2.6.23-gentoo-r8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
That is the latest kernel that I can get to work correctly. 2.6.24-r8
makes KDE slow as leap year for some reason. No clue, just went back to
what worked for me.
Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions?
Thanks
Dale
:-) :-)
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