On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:29, Alexander Pohl wrote: > After creating the full backup I have done an backup of the hole host > with the archive function. The resulting archive was about 700 MB in > size and spanned over two files with 650 MB per file without > compression: > > $ ls /tmp > localhost.0.tar.raw.aa > localhost.0.tar.raw.ab [...] > tar: '#######' is not continued on this volume > Prepare volume #2 for `localhost.0.tar.raw.aa' and hit return: > > The man page of tar says that each volume should be an intact tar > archive itself, where all none spaned files can still be accessed. > Does anybody see the mistake in my restoring commands?
These files weren't created by gnutar's multivolume option - they were created by backuppc making a complete tar image, feeding it to compress and splitting to the specified size files. You have to cat them together before untarring or in a pipe feeding tar. Typically you would only do this if your online copy of something you need has expired so I'm not sure if anyone has done the convenience script that prompts for CDs and pipes the data to tar. But, it looks like you didn't include compression in your archive output. If you did, the whole thing might fit easily on one cd. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
