Hi All, I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite some experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors.
I seem to have done this successfully in the past, but I am getting inappropriate results this time round. This is the fs I am trying to back up: ======================================================== # ls -la /media/hda5 total 208 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 1 12:56 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Feb 1 11:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25 04:02 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 data drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:37 dev drwxr-xr-x 82 root root 12288 Feb 1 08:43 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 initrd drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 31 04:02 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 18 19:35 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 1 07:55 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 23 10:46 misc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 proc drwxr-x--- 6 root root 4096 Jan 3 05:55 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Nov 23 04:02 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:37 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 sys drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Feb 1 08:43 tmp drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:38 usr drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:43 var ======================================================== The fs is shown to be 1.1G large: ======================================================== # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... /dev/hda5 5.8G 1.1G 4.5G 20% /media/hda5 ======================================================== I want to save the backup on a USB drive on /media/sda1. Therefore I ran star as root like this: # cd /dev/sda1 # star -xattr -H=exustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /media/sda1 After a lot of messages like these: ======================================================== star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/dumpfilter'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/ethtool'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/traceroute6'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/tmp'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/share/firstboot/modules/rootpassword.py'. ======================================================== ... it eventually completes. What puzzles me is the size of the star archive, which compared to a vanilla tar archive is massive: ======================================================== # ls -la /media/sda1 total 17294256 drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 4096 Feb 1 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Feb 1 11:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 932474880 Dec 6 13:50 hda5_root.star -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 867123200 Dec 6 13:26 hda5_root.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14486097920 Feb 1 13:13 hda5_root1.star -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 940288000 Feb 1 10:42 hda5_root1.tar ... ======================================================== Is this difference in size between the hda5_root1.tar and hda5_root1.star expected? I also show above the previous back up I did as a comparison (although I cannot recall exactly what options I chose to run star with). -- Regards, Mick
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