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- >>>>> "Vincent" == <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> writes:
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- 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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