i wrote: |Hello, and help! help! help! ^.^ .. |so we go like | | - ... scheduled 2199 files for backup | - Creating complete archive.... | tar: Removing leading `/' from member names | tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets | tar: Removing leading `/' from member names | - Writing current timestamp to </home/steffen/traffic/.-backup.dat> | - mail(1)ing report and exit success | |Ok. The list of files to be added is complete, but the last three |directories including a few dozen files are completely missing if |i unpack the archive!! |They are however part of the archive content, e.g.: | | ?130[steffen@wales x]$ tar -tf monthly-backup.tar | grep 'mail/2013.track\ | ' | ?1[steffen@wales x]$ grep 'mail/2013.track' monthly-backup.tar | Binary file monthly-backup.tar matches ... |So the next file in the archive would "man.conf" in the very same |directory according to archive content: | | $ dd ibs=1000000 skip=375 if=monthly-backup.tar|s-hex|v ...
P.S.: i was able to extract the necessary data via $ dd ibs=1 skip=$((375000000 + 8988736)) if=monthly-backup.tar P.P.S.: i am currently compiling star(1) (there is no package for the Linux i am on), i hope you don't mind. ._. --steffen
