Backup with Tar - Long Path name

[Emanuele De Angelis]

Hi all,
i have a problem with tar.
How do i make a tar for file whith long path name?
And Restore?

Thanks

[G. Vrijhoeven · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Did you try edding the N option:

Man tar: N Write a POSIX format archive. This format allows file names
of up to 256 characters in length, and correctly archives
and restores the following file types: regular files,
character and block special devices, links, symbolic links,
directories, and FIFO special files. It also stores the
user and group name of each file and attempts to use these
names to determine the user-ID and group-ID of a file when...

HTH,

Gideon

[Cheryl Griffin]

tar does not support long file names.

[Emanuele De Angelis]

Thanks all.