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Re: How to backup an executor partition??



In article <4nr71a$67c@service.polymtl.ca> coyote@step.polymtl.ca () writes:
<   In article <199605200625.BAA01207@raven.ots.utexas.edu>, Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
<   >Look at the --null option to GNU tar (find has a complementary
<   >-print0).  Basically what you want is to pass tar a list of null
<   >terminated (not whitespace terminated) files.  That way the files can
<   >have spaces, weird characters, etc.
<
<   Unfortunately, adding --null to my tar command line did not seem to make
<   any kind of difference (current command line: tar --null -cvpzf ...):
<   tar still complains about Long Links.. could it be that GNU tar has a
<   limitation on the number of characters in the names of the files handed
<   to it?...

Last time I looked, tar (and I believe also gnu tar) has a default
limit of 100 characters to pathnames. As you have discovered, this
often creates problems when backing up mac disks since the macintosh
spirit encourages deeply nested folders and *long* file names such as
"My favorite high school term paper from 9'th grade". (Allowing spaces
encourages multi-word titles).

Jeff










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