tar: File name too long
2007-12-25 10:36:00
The original posting was as next:
> Some one of you does know what can I do to avoid the
> next kind of messages and get files backed up ?
>tar: //opt/local1/AnswerBook/SysSoft1.5/INSTALL/04.Installing_a_Standalone_Workstation_with_Custom_Install: file name too long
The two main solutions were to use GNU tar or to use
dump (ufsdump).
Now I am using GNU tar (prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu), and I
have had no more problems.
Only as a remark, tar and GNU tar are not directly
compatible and their syntaxes are different.
Special thaks to
charest@sar3.CANR.Hydro.Qc.CA (Claude Charest)
"Christopher L. Barnard" <cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu>
cecilp@westel.com (Cecil Pang)
Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
"Mark C. Henderson" <mch@squirrel.com>
weber@ash.crd.ge.com (Markus Weber)
Trevor Paquette <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
mattias@txc.com (Mattias Zhabinskiy)
celeste@celestial.stokely.com (Celeste Stokely)
Kenneth Simpson <chaos@best.com>
Lusty Wench <lusty@aimnet.com>
jgotobed@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Joe Gotobed)
Paul Kanz <paul@icx.com>
martin@mednuc.hsr.it (Martin Achilli)
nobroin@esoc.esa.de (Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard)
Phil Burg <phil@bofh.anu.edu.au>
richard@biocell.irmkant.rm.cnr.it
"Daniel J Blander - Sr. Systems Engineer for ACS" <Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.Com>
Thaks.
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