On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these
nuggets of information:
Hi Myles,
Sorry it took awhile to get back. No problem with the questions.
Answers dispersed throughout.
>
> A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was
> the command you used?
tar cvf mail.tar mail
>Did you check the file size of the .tar file
> against the original folder (IIRC, they should be very close to the
> same)?
No I didn't. But I did test it by untarring it after I had it tar up
but before I copied it to zip disk. It untared fine then.
>Did you try unpacking the .tar.bz2 file with 'tar xyvf
> <file>.tar.bz2'?
Got a "y --invalid option"
Can you see what's in the .tar file using some
> utility like KDE's Archiver or maybe midnight commander?
KArchiver errors out with " I can't fork a decompressor". I don't have
midnight commander installed.
>And lastly,
> have you done this successfully in the past?
I've successfully tarred them to backup but I've never had to try to
restore them until now. So I guess I haven't.
>
> Sorry for all the questions but those are what came to mind.
No problem. Thanks for the help.
--
Tom Wilson
Registered Linux user #199331
Live on your knees in conformity or die on your feet for honesty.
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