Re: tar: Link name too long for ustar
From: Hugo Villeneuve (hugo_at_EINTR.net)
Date: 06/16/05
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:20:50 -0400
John McGrail <ratfood@food.skaterat.net> wrote:
> 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).
I was under the impresssion that GNU tar had a hack involving a regular
file holding the too large information. One would need to tar and untar
with the GNU version.
This small size limitation of the symbolic link destination in the tar
format is the reason I try to use the "cpio" archive format. But usually
with the "pax" interface and the apropriate option.
-- Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@EINTR.net>
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