On Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to > moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I > used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine > it failed to do anything. (except use 30 minutes of CPU time...) > > MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/ > tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > MacMini home # > > I'm currently running > > tar -tz /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 > > and it's been going 15 minutes without writing anything to the screen. > I assume that I need to list the contents of the tar file to figure > out how to untar but I'm really not sure. > > How do I best proceed? > > Thanks, > Mark
a different kernel? I had a problem with systemresucecd a couple of weeks ago. Unpacking a tar file with multi gb size took more than an hour - for 300mb. I booted into my backup gentoo where untarring the whole thing took less ....
