On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 09:09 +0200, Koenraad Lelong wrote:

Since a few weeks I'm running a script to backup my home-server. It's just a few tar-files I'm making on a removable hard-disk. Every week I run the same script with commands like star -cf tar-file.tar.gz directory I don't do any errorchecking though, like checking if all tar-commands end without errors. That's a next project. Last weekend I tried to recover that data to another external hard-disk, to see if the backup was restorable. It seemed to work fine except that I got a message, something like "ignoring trailing garbage". Am I to worry that my backup has problems ?

If it looks like all your files where there I wouldn't worry about it.

Now I remember I actually used tar to restore. Maybe there is a difference ?

star is better than tar, if I recall correctly it drops a BLOB of extra-meta data at the end of the archive. So again, if everything looks OK, I wouldn't worry about it. Just use star for both backup and restore next time. And use the start H=exustar -acl -xattr options when backing up. That way you get all the information for modern filesystems. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org