Re: star 1.5a25 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu): diff reports many different uname, gname

Marc Rechté <[email protected]> wrote:

star 1.5a25 is extremely old!

The recent version is 1.5a77.

> We are doing our backup with star:
>  
>   star -c -v -time -acl H=exustar file=/dev/st0 \
>         -not pattern=\*/\.recycle/\* /home \
>         /root \
>         /etc \
>         /var \
>         1>>$lf.log 2>>$lf.err


I would not call this a "backup", see star man page....

> A verification is performed:
>   star -diff -v -C=/ file=/dev/st0 1>>$lf.log 2>>$lf.err
>  
> This is the outcome (drawn from $lf.err):
> star: 22101970 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 226324172800 bytes = 
> 221019700.00k).
> star: Total time 5318.958sec (41553 kBytes/sec)
> star: The following problems occurred during archive processing:
> star: Cannot: stat 0, open 0, read/write 0. Size changed 0.
> star: Missing links 0, Name too long 0, File too big 0, Not dumped 28.
								^^^^^^^^^
								You did omit the
								messages 
related to this warning

> star: Processed all possible files, despite earlier errors.
> diffopts=perm,type,nlink,uid,gid,uname,gname,size,data,rdev,hardlink,symlink,sparse,mtime,ctime,dir 
>
> star: WARNING: skipping leading '/' on filenames.
> star: 22101970 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 226324172800 bytes = 
> 221019700.00k).

See man page.....
  
> The verification stage reports more than 4000 errors of the following 
> type (out of  350000 files)
> home/commun/distribution/HP Laserjet 9050n/: different uname
>       0 drwxrws---  :rwx/ntusers Mar 16 10:25 2007 
> home/commun/distribution/HP Laserjet 9050n/
>       0 drwxrws---  root/ntusers Mar 16 10:25 2007 
> home/commun/distribution/HP Laserjet 9050n/
> var/www/icons/pie2.png: different uname
>     253 -rw-r--r--  root/rwx May 30 09:54 2001 var/www/icons/pie2.png
>     253 -rw-r--r--  :rw-/rwx May 30 09:54 2001 var/www/icons/pie2.png
> var/spool/mail/root: different uname,gname
>    7660 -rw-------  root/:--- Mar 10 08:25 2007 var/spool/mail/root
>    7660 -rw-------  :rw-/rwx Mar 10 08:25 2007 var/spool/mail/root
> var/spool/samba/: different gname
>       0 drwxrwxrwt  root/:--- Feb  8 18:07 2007 var/spool/samba/
>       0 drwxrwxrwt  root/rwx Feb  8 18:07 2007 var/spool/samba/
>     ...
>
> What could be the cause of the problem (please note the strange 
> user/group name reported) ?

Looks like a bug in the "libc" from your OS.

I would recommend to compile a recent 1.5a77 on the machine you like to run
star.... maybethis is just a self-incompatibility of different Linux versions.

Jörg

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