From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUHQl-0005QE-OX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:18:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 674DFE0439; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from iron01.fraunhofer.de (iron01.fraunhofer.de [153.96.1.54]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228AFE0439 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.164]) by iron01.fraunhofer.de with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 03 Feb 2009 10:18:40 +0100 Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.13.7/8.13.7) with SMTP id n139IdVj025889 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:18:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from rigel ([10.147.65.195]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:18:39 +0100 Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:18:36 +0100 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused Message-ID: <49880bec.YRc1AGjiIvDsCfDp%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200902011938.47320.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <49861de6.jI6EXy0g45AuFVty%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <200902022332.14336.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902022332.14336.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2009 09:18:39.0879 (UTC) FILETIME=[66B0A170:01C985E0] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4abbd82f-2d3c-4090-9516-d8869cae667b X-Archives-Hash: 0276dde86d727d86400e7bc1205fec06 Mick wrote: > > > I want to save the backup on a USB drive on /media/sda1. Therefore= I ran > > > star as root like this: > > > > > > # cd /dev/sda1 > > > # star -xattr -H=3Dexustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /me= dia/sda1 > > > > This is a useless command line as -C /media/sda1 is executed after > > archiving /media/hda5. > > Does this mean that I should have '-C /media/sda1' before '/media/hda5'= ? Using absolute paths (as you did) is a really bad idea and '-C /media/sd= a1'=20 before '/media/hda5' will not help you.... -C performs a chdir before processing the next arg Useful is something like '-C /media/sda1' "." If you like to do backups, you should tell star to archive more meta data by using -dump instead of H=3Dexustar. -dump includes H=3Dexustar but is more. There are several examples in the man page and I still don't know what ca= used=20 your real problems. A frequent problem on Linux is that not all files to support a specific f= eature=20 are present or that you first need to activate them. Did you use extended= =20 attributes with other programs before? J=F6rg --=20 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=F6rg Schilling D-13353 = Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) =20 joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blo= gspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schil= y