On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 08:42, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Rocky Hurley um 14:27: > > I am using tar to backup my system. I find and grep most all files to a > > list and then back the files up from the list. > > Can you post your command setup for illustration? > > tar -cjvpf $bkupdir/$host.system.$YMDT.tbz -X $tmpbkdir/nobak.txt -T $tmpbkdir/bkuplist.txt > > The problem I am having is not happening in our debian or BSD boxes, but > > only in fedora... it also happened in shrike too.( as an aside ) It will > > back up the list then start over in the list at a random location. > > You run tar in verbose mode? > yes ok... this is cut extremely short for brevity. List to compress: AKA $tmpbkdir/bkuplist.txt ====================================8<----------------------------- home/rocky/sshtunnel home/rocky/.xmms/ home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.gkrellm2/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/plugins/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/themes/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_25_0_0_0 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_25_2500_110_1100 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_22_0_53_0 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/net/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/net/eth0 ------------------------------------ EOF to be compressed ---------------------------------->8============================= List of what it may actually compress: ---------------------------------->8============================= home/rocky/sshtunnel home/rocky/.xmms/ home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.gkrellm2/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/plugins/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/themes/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_25_0_0_0 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_25_2500_110_1100 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_22_0_53_0 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/net/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/net/eth0 home/rocky/sshtunnel home/rocky/.xmms/ home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/sshtunnel home/rocky/.xmms/ home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ home/rocky/.xmms/Plugins/ home/rocky/.xmms/config home/rocky/.xmms/xmms.m3u home/rocky/.xmms/menurc home/rocky/.gkrellm2/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/plugins/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/themes/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_25_0_0_0 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_25_2500_110_1100 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/inet/inet_22_0_53_0 home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/net/ home/rocky/.gkrellm2/data/net/eth0 ---------------------------------- End Of Compression ===============================8<------------------------- Also in the $tmpbkdir/nobak.txt ---------------------->8============================== *.iso *.rpm home/rocky/backup home/rocky/mp3tree ======================8<----------------------------- /home/rocky/mp3tree is a mounted smb share. It also tries to back it up occasionally even though explicitly told not to back it up. Does this help??? -- Rocky rlh-list_AT_nmrg.net
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