Re: star: Too few arguments

Hi,

I missed to add a "." after -C and now star did the first level 0 dump.
I still have some problems with -xattr-linux because prints some 
warnings during the backup:

...
star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for 'bin/lsmod.modutils'
star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for 
'usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcc_s_32.so'.
star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for 
'sbin/modprobe.modutils'.
...

These are just some examples and there are more of them.

It would be create if someone would explain these warings and how can i 
get rid of them without removing the -xattr-linux argument.

regards,
Thomas

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Debian Etch and want to do regular increment backups with 
> star (1.5-67a from debian repo).
> I create a snapshot from the logical volume (the root partition /), 
> mount it to /mnt/snapshot and dump it with star into a tarfile on a ftp 
> server which is locally mounted with the arguments:
> 
> star -c -xdev -sparse -acl -xattr-linux -xfflags -link-dirs -j -fifo 
> fs=128m artype=exustar dumpdate=/tmp/star_dumpdate -wtardumps -level=0 
> f=/mnt/ftp/backup_level-0.star.bz2 -C /mnt/snapshot
> 
> After reading the man page and the list archive i thought this would do 
> the trick, but star doesn't start the backup and gives me the error message:
> 
> star: Too few arguments; will not create an empty archive.
> Usage:  star cmd [options] file1 ... filen
> 
> Which argument is wrong or missing?