Re: empty archives

* Joerg Schilling schreibt:
> Lasse Kliemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe there was a misunderstanding here. The backup I was trying to restore 
> > *was* created with VOLHDR=something, as it also appears in the output (see 
> > above; 'Volhdr: level 4 of /fs/main/mount'). The error message is different 
> > from what I got without volume header (see my original mail), but the restore 
> > still cannot complete beyond the empty archive (without your tricks).
> >
> > The backup itself is unimportant; it stems from a test run. I wrote a little 
> > test script to check how good Linux filesystem snapshots (using LVM, detailed 
> > descriptions follow sometime) and star work on active filesystems. 
> >
> > star version is 1.5a82.
> 
> Please test the new a83-pre2 version. It includes a workaround for extracting 
> incrementals after an incremental was lost and it now does always 
> add "." in the incrementals.

The new `-force-restore' feature works well. It allowed me to restore my old 
dumps (that I made for testing) properly.

However, the second new feature is not yet functioning correctly. Empty dumps 
*without* a volume header give

  $ star t f= level-1.star 
  ./ directory link to .

Restoring such an empty dump gives

  Validating this dump against restored filesystem...
  Dump is valid, starting restore.
  star: Archive contains directory './' without name list

The exit code is 255. Attempts to restore higher-level dumps fail:

  star: File exists. Cannot create 'star-lock', restore is already running.

Deleting the lock file by hand and continuing using `-force-restore' works.

Empty dumps *including* a volume header show the old behaviour; there seems 
to be no `.' in them.

Lasse

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