[SunHELP] Re: compression rate with tar

[praveena k]

Hi all

Can u tell me what the compression rate with tar ,
And also how to take incremental backups with tar .
Tar  cvf will take the full backup , how do i take increemental backups

thanks
kumar

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>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:01:05 -0500 (CDT)
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>Today's Topics:
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>    1. Repeated EAGAIN (munkumar at hss.hns.com)
>    2. Re: mount/umount (James Fogg)
>    3. rpc.rexd repeated process (Xiaomei Zhou)
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>Message: 1
>From: munkumar at hss.hns.com
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:39:23 +0530
>Subject: [SunHELP] Repeated EAGAIN
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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>
>
>
>I am trying to do a recvfrom on a socket after the select breaks for this
>socket. The socket descriptor has the NON_BLOCK flag set. The recvfrom
>repeatedly returns a EAGAIN - resources temporarily not available. The same
>program has been running without any fail for past few months. This problem 
>has
>started to come recently itself. There is sufficient swap space available. 
>Also,
>I do not want to remove the nonblocking flag lest I may change the system 
>after
>so much testing that has been put into it ... Can somebody please give me 
>clue
>as to what could be the possible cause for this error?
>any sugestions/pointers are welcome ....
>
>regards
>muni
>
>
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>Message: 2
>From: James Fogg <jfogg at vicinity.com>
>Organization: Vicinity Corporation
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] mount/umount
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:59:09 -0400
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> > Also i am unable to create home directories for my users
> > even admin tool in CDE is unable to do so
> > i belive it have something to do with automount right ?
> > how can i correct it ?
>
>This may be unique to my install, but I found I cannot create user
>directories in /home/username. (Solaris 5.7 on SS5).
>
>Use /export/home/username. I am *told* that the idea of an export/home
>directory is that Sun had the big idea of using one machine to store
>everybody's home directory and having other machines mount that home 
>directory
>via NFS. That way no matter what machine you were using you had the same
>home directory with all your files available. When I try to create a
>subdirectory on /home I get an error (even as root). Something like 
>"operation
>not applicable".
>
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:22:44 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Xiaomei Zhou <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Cc: mei at prc.utexas.edu
>Subject: [SunHELP] rpc.rexd repeated process
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone have any clue as to why I'm getting tons of rpc.rexd process in 
>my
>process table? This rexd process has been commented out in my inetd.conf so 
>I'm very
>confused why it is even running. I used "ps -ef | grep rpc.rexd" and I got 
>about 80
>rpc.rexd processes like this:
>
>root  7205     1  0 06:12:22 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7207     1  0 06:16:27 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7209     1  0 06:20:32 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7211     1  0 06:24:38 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7213     1  0 06:28:43 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7215     1  0 06:32:49 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7217     1  0 06:36:54 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7219     1  0 06:40:59 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7221     1  0 06:45:05 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7223     1  0 06:49:10 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7225     1  0 06:53:16 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7227     1  0 06:57:21 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>     root  7229     1  0 07:01:26 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
>
>I looked at few security sites and so far haven't found any report on 
>similar
>situation.
>
>
>Mei
>
>
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