On Thursday 27 April 2006 04:42, Eric Warnke wrote: > Unfortunately I have looked high and low, there is just no good way to read > sparse files intelligently. Whoever though of providing the functionality > without an API to step through the block mapping was a moron. It is truly > a brain dead technology. At least there is a fcntl under Win32 to deal > with it with some intelligence.
Yes, the SCSI tape interface and accessing sparse files on Unix were two horrible design decisions (or perhaps lack of design). Quite a contrast to the rest of Unix. > > Cheers, > Eric > > On 4/26/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Scott Ruckh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is what you said Eric Warnke > > > > > > > Oops tar -Scf lowercase s is somthing else. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Eric > > > > > > Good idea. > > > > > > I tried: > > > tar -Sc -f /var/log/lastlog.tar /var/log/lastlog > > > > > > But it appears to do much the same as bacula. It too must read through > > > the entire file, so it does not speed things up. > > > > The only program I'm aware of that will back up sparse files efficiently > > is dump. But dump isn't cross-platform - not even a little. > > > > -- > > Bill Moran > > Potential Technologies > > http://www.potentialtech.com -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
