Kevin, you are a life saver. On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:36:37PM -0800, Kevin Buhr wrote: >Sure, use: > > tar tvfj linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | less > >and you'll get an "ls -l"-style directory listing.
That's very nice. Takes a long time on a 3GB bz2'ed file, but it works. :) >I believe you've been bitten by a queer bit of "tar" behaviour. [explanation snipped] I believe you're right. It was "exiting now" when untarring /proc, which apparently prevented it from finishing the job. > tar -jtvf linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | egrep '^l' | \ > perl -lane 'print "ln -snf $F[7] $F[5]" if (@F == 8 && $F[6] eq "->")' \ > > FIX_MY_SYMLINKS This gave me warm unix fuzzies like you wouldn't believe. I had totally forgotten about the -a flag to perl, and hadn't even thought of doing it this way. I was on this track, but I was using another debian box instead of the tarfile as my source of information. This is clearly a much cleaner solution. At any rate, I did this, and *poof*, it booted and ran without complaint. Thank you so much. One last question. I'm planning on doing a similar procedure to my other machine. Is there anything other than /proc that I need to exclude? I was surprised to find that /dev made it through intact. (In case you're wondering, I partitioned the drives into many pieces because I got them while ext2 was the stable choice. Now that I have ext3, I'd rather have one large partition, hence the backup/restore.) Thanks again! -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
