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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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