Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

i wrote:
 |Hello, and help! help! help! ^.^
 ..
 |so we go like
 |
 |  - ... scheduled 2199 files for backup
 |  - Creating complete archive....
 |  tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
 |  tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
 |  tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
 |  - Writing current timestamp to </home/steffen/traffic/.-backup.dat>
 |  - mail(1)ing report and exit success
 |
 |Ok.  The list of files to be added is complete, but the last three
 |directories including a few dozen files are completely missing if
 |i unpack the archive!!
 |They are however part of the archive content, e.g.:
 |
 |  address@hidden x]$ tar -tf monthly-backup.tar | grep 'mail/2013.track\
 |  '
 |  address@hidden x]$ grep 'mail/2013.track' monthly-backup.tar
 |  Binary file monthly-backup.tar matches
 ...
 |So the next file in the archive would "man.conf" in the very same
 |directory according to archive content:
 |
 |  $ dd ibs=1000000 skip=375 if=monthly-backup.tar|s-hex|v
 ...

P.S.: i was able to extract the necessary data via

  $ dd ibs=1 skip=$((375000000 + 8988736)) if=monthly-backup.tar

P.P.S.: i am currently compiling star(1) (there is no package for
the Linux i am on), i hope you don't mind.  ._.

--steffen