On Sunday 01 February 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Try the command lines from the example section in the man page ;-)
Thanks Joerg, it may not look like it but that's how I started. > > 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 > > This is a useless command line as -C /media/sda1 is executed after > archiving /media/hda5. Does this mean that I should have '-C /media/sda1' before '/media/hda5' ? -- Regards, Mick
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