Mark Knecht schrieb: > 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 >
Err, your tar commands are a bit wrong. tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/ tells tar to extract the parts of it which are under home/evelyn to the working directory. This might be what you wanted in the first place but I guess you rather want tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 -C /home/evelyn/ which means extracting the complete content of the tar file to /home/evelyn. Your second command ... well, where to start: 1. Since you didn't use the -f switch (as you did correctly in the first command), tar expects input from stdin, not as a file specified on commandline. That's why it hasn't done anything in the last 15 minutes. 2. With -z you specify that the file is compressed with gzip but the file ending shows its compressed with bzip2. That's the -j switch (again, correct in your first command). By the way: You should enable the -p switch when extracting the files in order to restore permissions and so forth. Hope this helps! Florian Philipp
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