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Re: How to backup an executor partition??



On Thu, 23 May 1996, Mat Hostetter wrote:

> >>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> writes:
> 
>     Vincent> 	Note the "././@LongLink" errors. Anyway, I managed to
>     Vincent> fix my problems by modifying my backup scripts and things
>     Vincent> seem to work so far with afio but I am surprised that GNU
>     Vincent> tar seems to have problems with some files.
> 
> The "@LongLink" isn't an error, it's how GNU tar handles files with
> pathnames longer than 100 characters.
> 
> I believe the "--null" only matters if you are feeding filenames in
> via stdin, which you are not.
> 
> -Mat

Thanks for the explaination. I miscorrectly interpreted that files for
which "@LongLink" was reported were not backed up. It surely is a strange
way to report an error to say "././@LongLink" instead of some more
explicit message. Thanks a lot to everyone who responded. Also, if some
people are using the backup scripts 1.03 from sunsite.unc.edu and found in
/pub/Linux/system/backup, to make them work with executor filesystems,
change this line in ~/afioscripts/makebackup: 

if (exec (P_NOCHECK, "awk", "'{print $1}'", listfile,

to:

if (exec (P_NOCHECK, "awk  -F \" CT:\" ", "'{print $1}'", listfile,

This fixed my backup problem and therefore, I don't care as much about GNU
tar and executor filesystems anymore.. :)

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Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering.
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique.
coyote@step.polymtl.ca, coyote@info.polymtl.ca

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.       - Robert Frost





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