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From: riggor9999 on 26 Jul 2010 16:35
Hello -

I am having a strange problem that I cannot resolve..I am running SUSE SLES
10 SP1.

I use the following command to backup my entire system to an external USB
drive:

tar -cvpf /media/disk/os_backup/full_backup_`date
'+%d-%m-%Y'`.tar --directory=/ --exclude=proc --exclude=tmp --exclude=backup_scripts
--exclude=media/disk .

Once complete - the backup size is 202.7GB.

When I use KDE ARK to view the tar file .... it only shows 5 directories:

/boot
/opt
/sys
/etc
/lost+found

and the size of all the directories and files combined is only 732 MB.

When I use KDE File Roller to view the same tarball ... it shows one
directory .... " . "

Double clicking on " . " expands to show the same 5 directories.

Does anyone have an idea what is going on?


Thanks.

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From: Jasen Betts on 27 Jul 2010 04:53
On 2010-07-26, riggor9999 <riggor9999(a)nospam_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am having a strange problem that I cannot resolve..I am running SUSE SLES
> 10 SP1.
>
> I use the following command to backup my entire system to an external USB
> drive:
>
> tar -cvpf /media/disk/os_backup/full_backup_`date
> '+%d-%m-%Y'`.tar --directory=/ --exclude=proc --exclude=tmp --exclude=backup_scripts
> --exclude=media/disk .
>
> Once complete - the backup size is 202.7GB.
>
> When I use KDE ARK to view the tar file .... it only shows 5 directories:
>
> /boot
> /opt
> /sys
> /etc
> /lost+found
>
> and the size of all the directories and files combined is only 732 MB.
>
> When I use KDE File Roller to view the same tarball ... it shows one
> directory .... " . "
>
> Double clicking on " . " expands to show the same 5 directories.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what is going on?

possibly those GUI tools run out of space.
can tar read the file?

tar tvf FILENAME


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From: mjt on 27 Jul 2010 14:01
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:35:09 -0400
"riggor9999" <riggor9999(a)nospam_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse

If you're going to post to multiple newsgroups, set a FollowUp.

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From: riggor9999 on 27 Jul 2010 21:08

"Jasen Betts" <jasen(a)xnet.co.nz> wrote in message
news:i2m6qo$1f3$1(a)reversiblemaps.ath.cx...
> On 2010-07-26, riggor9999 <riggor9999(a)nospam_yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hello -
>>
>> I am having a strange problem that I cannot resolve..I am running SUSE
>> SLES
>> 10 SP1.
>>
>> I use the following command to backup my entire system to an external USB
>> drive:
>>
>> tar -cvpf /media/disk/os_backup/full_backup_`date
>> '+%d-%m-%Y'`.tar --directory=/ --exclude=proc --exclude=tmp --exclude=backup_scripts
>> --exclude=media/disk .
>>
>> Once complete - the backup size is 202.7GB.
>>
>> When I use KDE ARK to view the tar file .... it only shows 5 directories:
>>
>> /boot
>> /opt
>> /sys
>> /etc
>> /lost+found
>>
>> and the size of all the directories and files combined is only 732 MB.
>>
>> When I use KDE File Roller to view the same tarball ... it shows one
>> directory .... " . "
>>
>> Double clicking on " . " expands to show the same 5 directories.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
>
> possibly those GUI tools run out of space.
> can tar read the file?
>
> tar tvf FILENAME
>

I thought that may have been it ... but nope ... tar tvf FILENAME confirms
the above.

I piped it to a file as well so I could search the contents .... tar tvf
FILENAME > listing.txt





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