Jouni Järvinen

I did test it and works fine, just takes way longer.

I fixed the command, it was butchered nicely: ionice -c 2 -n 7 nice -n 20 taskset -c 6-7 screen 7z a -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mhc=on -mhe=off -m0=LZMA2:a=1:d=1000m:mf=bt4:fb=273:mc=1000000000:lc=3:lp=1:pb=4 -mmt=2 -mtc=off home_filtered.7z home Works fine with the file list and the folder name.

It's giving the exact same error after taking a sizable time before saying 'Scanning', regardless of whether each line starts and ends with a double quote: rautamiekka@menet:~/rauta-backups_$ ionice -c 2 -n 7 nice -n 20 taskset -c 6,7 7z a -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mf=on -mhc=on -mhe=off -m0=LZMA2 -ma=1 -md=1536m -mmf=bt4 -mfb=273 -mmc=1000000000 -mlc=3 -mlp=1 -mpb=4 -mmt=2 -mtc=off -i@home.lst home_filtered.7z 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8...

It's giving the exact same error, regardless of whether each line starts and ends with a double quote: rautamiekka@menet:~/rauta-backups_$ ionice -c 2 -n 7 nice -n 20 taskset -c 6,7 7z a -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mf=on -mhc=on -mhe=off -m0=LZMA2 -ma=1 -md=1536m -mmf=bt4 -mfb=273 -mmc=1000000000 -mlc=3 -mlp=1 -mpb=4 -mmt=2 -mtc=off -i@home.lst home_filtered.7z 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs) Scanning Creating...

If I understand the manpage correctly, that's the -i@XXX where XXX is the name of the list ?

Something wrong with the parameters

That doesn't sound specific to Arch Linux at all.

Nevermind, the problem wasn't that, but the user's umask was 0100, which strips the...