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rev138
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 Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:59 pm Post subject: I can't untar my system backup. Help! |
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I made a bzip'd tarball of my system, then repartitioned my hard drive. When I did this, I added several "--exclude=" switches to stop it from backing up various directories like /timp and /proc, but I forgot to exclude /sys.
Now, when I go to extract the tarball, it stops on '/sys/module/something/something', stalls for a long time, and then exits with an error. I've tried adding "--exclude=sys/*" to the command line, but it still freezes at the point where it should be extracting sys, and exits with an error.
This is a big problem for me. It's extracted everything but /var and /usr at that point, but those are slightly necessary.
Anyone know a fix for this?
Many thanks in advance. |
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neilhwatson
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Try restoring to a temp directory. Then copy just what you need. You could also restore just the parts you need. | Code: | | tar -xzf backup.tgz usr/* |
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rev138
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| neilhwatson wrote: | Try restoring to a temp directory. Then copy just what you need. You could also restore just the parts you need. | Code: | | tar -xzf backup.tgz usr/* |
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I tried. Anything I try to extract that's after sys doesn't work. I think my tarball might have gotten corrupted.
Oh well. I guess I'll have to rebuild from scratch. At least I have /etc for all my configs. |
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MrUlterior
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What does "tar -tzf <archive>" report? Are the files there? If so, run:
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tar -zxf --excude "sys" <archive>
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As --exclude sys/* will be expanded by your shell to match the present contents of sys and NOT the contents of your archive...
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