Re: tar: Link name too long for ustar

From: John McGrail (ratfood_at_food.skaterat.net)
Date: 06/15/05 

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:22:27 -0500

On 2005-06-15, blixel@gmail.com <blixel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The problem I'm running into is this:
>
> tar: Link name too long for ustar Maildir/.E-Mail Archives.2004.11
> November/cur/1100305690.93026_56777845505.soekris.localdomain.com:2,RS
>
> Apparently with OpenBSD's version of tar, I'm more limited with the
> length of file and path names than I was before. That's ok - I'm all
> about learning new ways of doing things. But so far my searching has
> led me in circles so I'm posting this question.
>
> How can I get around this file size limitation? If possible, I'd like
> to continue using tar for the sake of familiarity. But I'm willing to
> use something like pax to get it working because I'm very uncomfortable
> not having my backups running.
>

You can install the gtar package. This'll give you gnu tar (as
/usr/local/bin/gtar). 

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