Re: star: Too few arguments

Thomas Antony <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running Debian Etch and want to do regular increment backups with 
> star (1.5-67a from debian repo).

You need to upgrade first, you are 21 releases behind....

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

> 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?
>

"."

Well the most importnant thing is to upgrade first. Newer versions contain also 
better man pages. Note that you need to manage the time stamp for the snapshot!



Jörg

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