topic Re: tar failed with long path .. need alternative in Operating System - HP-UX

tar failed with long path .. need alternative

rleon — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:44:54 GMT

We tried to backup our Websphere application but found that is has a deep deep deep directory stucture.

Tar faild due to the length of the path.

gtar seems to work but it seems to move long listings to a different folder in a different directory.

How can I "back" this up using a unix tool to where it will catch everything reglardless of the length of the path and allow me to move the archive and when I open it .. it lays everything back down.

Thanks In Advance

Ricardo

Re: tar failed with long path .. need alternative

Dennis Handly — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:03:34 GMT

Well, you already tried gtar. You could try pax(1) since it the recommended replacement for fbackup(1m)/frecover(1m).

Just use "-x pax".

Or you can use fbackup and frecover for HP-UX.

Re: tar failed with long path .. need alternative

Steven Schweda — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:00:03 GMT

Re: tar failed with long path .. need alternative

Nighwish — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:24:00 GMT

"Been there done that"

You can use Gnu tar:

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

Regards.