On Thursday 23 April 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume > > > archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I > > > have to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes > > > it look promising. > > > > Star implements aprox. twice as many features than GNU tar. Star is even > > able to extract most if not all of those multi volume GNU tar archives > > that GNU tar does not like (while not being able to verify whether the > > follow up archive is the right one). Star intentionally does not > > implement write support for GNU tar multi volume archives because the GNU > > tar format is not a good idea. > > > > Jörg > > ok, I tried star last night. Backup worked well, but I made some mistake > with the exclude file. Now I have a backup of /sys as well. Won't kill me. > The - FF... option + .exclude is a very nice feature. > Will test restore early next week.
This has puzzled me too. Is there a way of passing the equivalent of tar's --exclude <file_pattern> at star, rather than a file containing a list of files to be excluded? I have been reading the -F,-FF ... but have failed to understand it so far :( Also, what happens if you run star to archive a directory that contains man & info files? I have run this on a CentOS machine and I think I had to abort because it was taking for ever and the size of the archive had already frown to twice the size of a tar archive ... (not sure if it was related to me using exustar as a format?) The complete command was something like: star -c -xattr -H=exustar -sparce -M -C /media/hda6 . -f /media/<backup>/hda6_date.star PS. Is Ctrl+c meant to exit star, or was I too impatient - I recall having to kill the PID to get it to stop. -- Regards, Mick
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