adb-split.sh fails with 'star compression failed at...
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adb-split.sh fails as per subject line.
Here's the offending output:
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tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.translate/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.backuptransport/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.calendar/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.calendar/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.ears/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.feedback/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.gm/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.gsf.login/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.maps.mytracks/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.marvin.talkback/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.onetimeinitializer/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.setupwizard/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.street/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.tag/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
Done
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘app-list’: File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘app-tar’: File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘app-ab’: File exists
Checking for apps folder...
Done
Checking if apps folder is not empty...
Done
Generating list of contents for each app...
Done
Creating individual tar archives...
star compression failed at com.google.android.apps.plus. Aborting.
Here's star:
$ which star
/usr/bin/star
I tried my best to work out the script and run star on the offending file, but I suspect I don't know what I'm doing:
$ star -c -f ./app-tar/com.google.android.apps.plus.tar -no-dirslash list=./app-list/com.google.android.apps.plus.list
star: No such file or directory. Cannot stat 'apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/sp/mm_utils\7.xml'.
star: No such file or directory. Cannot stat 'apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/sp/mm_utils\6.xml'.
star: No such file or directory. Cannot stat 'apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/sp/mm_utils\5.xml'.
star: No such file or directory. Cannot stat 'apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/sp/mm_utils\0.xml'.
star: No such file or directory. Cannot stat 'apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/sp/mm_utils\1.xml'.
star: 809 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 8284160 bytes = 8090.00k).
star: The following problems occurred during archive processing:
star: Cannot: stat 5, open 0, read/write 0, chdir 0. Size changed 0.
star: Missing links 0, Name too long 0, File too big 0, Not dumped 0.
star: Processed all possible files, despite earlier errors.
And the same with the last app line before the fail:
$ star -c -f ./app-tar/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.tar -no-dirslash list=./app-list/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.list
star: 10 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 102400 bytes = 100.00k).
Couldn't find any output for that...
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Morgan
Try to extract the ab file into tar and extract it with peazip or winrar, and see if it works.
Yes, that works fine - not able to use peazip or winrar. I have a different system:
$ java -jar abe.jar unpack 20150524_backup.ab 20150524_backup-1.tar
Strong AES encryption allowed
Magic: ANDROID BACKUP
Version: 3
Compressed: 1
Algorithm: none
226770944 bytes written to 20150524_backup-1.tar.
$
$ tar -xf 20150524_backup-1.tar
tar: apps/air.ElevationAngle/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/android/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/bbc.mobile.weather/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/biz.codefuture.svgviewer/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/ch.teamtasks.tasks/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/ch.teamtasks.tasks/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.andrew.apollo/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.androhispa.calc.headloss/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.browser.provider/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.calculator2/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.captiveportallogin/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.contacts/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.deskclock/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.deskclock/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.dialer/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.documentsui/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.dreams.basic/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.dreams.phototable/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.externalstorage/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.galaxy4/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.htmlviewer/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.incallui/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.inputmethod.latin/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.managedprovisioning/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.mms/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.mms/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.musicvis/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.nfc/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.noisefield/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.pacprocessor/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.phasebeam/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.providers.downloads.ui/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.providers.media/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.providers.settings/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.providers.userdictionary/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.proxyhandler/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.smspush/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.soundrecorder/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.terminal/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.vending/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.vending/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.wallpaper/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.wallpaper.holospiral/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.wallpaper.livepicker/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.android.wallpapercropper/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.apksoftware.compass/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.artifex.mupdfdemo/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.blackspruce.lpd/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.box.p9ec6d6a762214a05f09b71757106fc8c/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.csipsimple/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.csipsimple.plugins.codecs.pack1/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.csipsimple.plugins.video/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyanogenmod.filemanager/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyanogenmod.lockclock/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyanogenmod.lockclock/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyanogenmod.voicewakeup/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyanogenmod.wallpapers/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.cameranext/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.cmstats/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.fota/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.gallerynext/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.hexo/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.maxxaudio/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.screencast/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.theme.chooser/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.cyngn.themestore/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.dririan.RingyDingyDingy/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.esys.satfinder/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.fsck.k9/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.goldsequence.magneticstudfinder/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.androidforwork/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.adm/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.sheets/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.plus/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.apps.translate/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.backuptransport/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.calendar/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.calendar/_meta: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.ears/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.feedback/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.gm/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.gsf.login/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.maps.mytracks/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.marvin.talkback/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.onetimeinitializer/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.setupwizard/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.street/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
tar: apps/com.google.android.tag/_manifest: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
$
First, it's weird that all files have the timestamp of 1970 year (beginning of epoch). Check that you created your backup properly.
Second, since you are using a different operating system, it could be the cause (although unlikely)
I suggest you to create again the adb backup and check timestamps. You can also try extracting tar archive with "--warning=no-timestamp" to allow extraction.
As said, is probably that you ab file is corrupt.
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/13142/tar-extract-error-implausibly-old-time-stamp-1970-01-01-010000
P.S.: Which device are you using?
The problem is with the backslash '\' in paths. It's not support by windows or linux.
There's only way you can currently use the split script and work. You need to use OS X (mac) because is the only one that allows the use of backslashes as filenames. If you have a mac, good. If not, you can install Yosemite with Vmware Workstation inside a virtual machine and then use the OSX Unlocker 203. You can also download vmware images with osx preinstalled.