Re: empty archives

Lasse Kliemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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.

It is there for some time, but I added new places to allow it to work.

> 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 .

Could you give me the exact command line xou used to create the archive?
I cannot reproduce this.

This looks as if your stat(2) did not report the directory type...
or you did use -link-dirs and the archive was not really empty.


> 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.

It may be that I did oversee some places where I should remove this file...


> 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.

This is true, this is something I did oversee with my tests.

Jörg

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