Re: Extracting a single directory from a partial incremental dump?

"Felix E. Klee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Somehow I'm not successful in extracting the contents of a single
> directory
> from a partial incremental multi-volume dump:
>
>   > star -xpU -restore -force-restore -multivol new-volume-script=true \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_01.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_02.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_03.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_04.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_05.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_06.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_07.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_08.tar \
>   f=/w2k/Recycled/important.2005-Aug-30_01.03.47_09.tar home/felix/.elmo
>   Volhdr: <none>
>   star: WARNING: This dump is a 'partial' dump and not a 'full' dump.
>   star: WARNING: An incremental restore may not work correctly.
>   Validating this dump against restored filesystem...
>   Dump level 0 on empty filesystem, starting restore.
>   star: pfind_node(): Not a directory 'bin' for 'bin/dd' flags 0 i_dir
>   0.

looks like the backup has been made with an outdated star version.

The problem you report was most likely fixed on June 8th in
star-1.5a61

Jörg

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