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Re: How to backup an executor partition??
>>>>> "Vincent" == <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> writes:
Vincent> Unfortunately, adding --null to my tar command line did
Vincent> not seem to make any kind of difference (current command
Vincent> line: tar --null -cvpzf ...): tar still complains about
Vincent> Long Links.. could it be that GNU tar has a limitation on
Vincent> the number of characters in the names of the files handed
Vincent> to it? I know this is not really the right newsgroup for
Vincent> that but tar only has problems with my executor partition
Vincent> and the some of the files and directories on it. At this
Vincent> point, I am a little lost about what to do to be able to
Vincent> put all files on my executor partition on my backups.
"Normal" tar has a limitation of 100 characters per pathname. GNU tar
does not have this restriction; it uses some magic to save and restore
the correct full pathnames. I typically invoke GNU tar with:
tar cvzf foo.tar.gz foo
and I have never had any problems with long pathnames. Strange. Make
sure you are invoking it in such a way that spaces in filenames will
not cause files to get split into multiple argumements to tar...
-Mat
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