[..]

> Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead?  Or using
> BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI?

No, sorry, I've not tried zip yet.

I'll first try to understand why things work on one but not the other system.


I've by found a windows XP host who friendly accepts the restores sent to him 
-- including the "problem files".

My guess is that the Vista Machine has strange permissions set for some 
files.

Does Backuppc restore the permissions, as well? (I.e. could there be a 
situation in which a directory is created, made read-only, and then files are 
written into it?)


I'll check the file system of the XP host.

M.
 
> -Robin
> 
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote:
> > Update:
> > 
> > On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:16:01 Marcus Hardt wrote:
> > > Update:
> > > 
> > > tar xf restore.tar      will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big
> > 
> > fails
> > 
> > > cat restore.tar | tar x   seems to work
> > 
> > fails
> > 
> > But:
> > using the 'i' option for
> > 
> >      -i, --ignore-zeros
> >      
> >            ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF)
> > 
> > makes tar wander through the archive even thought it might have detected
> > EOF markers (i.e. "two consecutive zero-filled records" according to
> > the wikipedia page of the tar format)
> > 
> > I observed several warnings in my cmdline:
> >     tar tfi restore.tar |wc -l
> > 
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> > 387781
> > 
> > I can only hope this works and helps others.
> > 
> > M.
> > 
> > > And I thought windows was terrible...
> > > 
> > > M.
> > > 
> > > On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > > On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > btw:  this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same
> > > > > errors using smbclient and rsync via ssh.
> > > > 
> > > > But windows specific?  Are you sure the windows user has write
> > > > access and the file isn't locked by something else having it open?
> > > > 
> > > > > And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how
> > > > > super great backuppc was...
> > > > 
> > > > There is at least the option of downloading an archive file through
> > > > a browser and restoring from that.

-- 
M.


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