problem while taking backup of /var/lost+found

[tejas pandya_1]

Hi,

While taking tar backup of /var/lost+found it is going in to loop and it will never complited .Force fully we have to kill this process.
Kindly suggest the solution.

O/S is HP UX 10.0

[sreekanthtm]

What is the command used to take the backup.
Give the syntax.

[tejas pandya_1]

i am using command tar -cvf "filename.tar" /var/lost+found

[Tim Nelson]

Just curious what you have in lost+found that you need backed up ?

lost+found is for files with lost and/or found file structure that became corrupt / lost due to a system crash or some like event. fsck did not know what they were named or their location so it puts them in there.

The idea is that you look at those files, try to determine if they are important and move or rename them back to what they should be.


If you must how about trying cpio ?
cd /var/lost+found find ./|cpio -omvb > /dev/rmtX

[tejas pandya_1]

can i delete those files which are in lost+found

[Dennis Handly]

>Can i delete those files which are in lost+found

That's the problem. You have no idea what the names of the files are and no idea if they are useful. I don't understand why tar would hang on them? When is the last time you did an fsck?

Also, if these files went "missing" on some crash, has any user complained about them?

Since some are corrupted, I'm not sure if it makes sense to save them. I suppose you could have a loop that tars each file and then if it stops, you know which to remove. Then you can tar off the rest.

Start off with the last one listed (-v) before it hung?