Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick wrote: > > This has puzzled me too. Is there a way of passing the equivalent of > > tar's --exclude 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 underst

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > This has puzzled me too. Is there a way of passing the equivalent of > tar's --exclude 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 :( Tar has no --exclude option. You m

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann 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 > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann 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 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to > > > restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than > > > 100 multi-volume archives? > > > > No, just a couple of d

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to > > restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100 > > multi-volume archives? > > No, just a couple of douzend so far. My lib takes 8 cardridges. So far no > proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Thomas Chef wrote: > > > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > > > > want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Thomas Chef wrote: > > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want > > > to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > > > > Can I follow the guide on: > > > http://en.gentoo-wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Chef wrote: > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want > > to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > > Can I follow the guide on: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > > > Is that a pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:24:00AM +0200, Penguin Lover Thomas Chef squawked: > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to > use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > Personally I use app-backup/rdiff-backup and dump not to DVD, but to an external harddrive stored

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Chef wrote: > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to > use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > Can I follow the guide on: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > Is that a proven/working method ? Be very careful as GNU tar is buggy and do

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Jacques Montier
Thomas Chef a gentiment tapote: > Hello ! > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > Can I follow the guide on: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > Is that a proven/working method ? > > / Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Dale
Thomas Chef wrote: > Hello ! > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > Can I follow the guide on: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > Is that a proven/working method ? > > / Thomas A lot of pe

[gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Chef
Hello ! Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is that a proven/working method ? / Thomas