[Bug-tar] Regarding error message returned by Tar utility

[Abhishake Jha -X (abjha - WIPRO at Cisco)]

Hi All,
 
I am Abhishake Jha working in India. I have a query regarding the GNU Tar.exe in this e-mail and would very appreciate a response to this e-mail.
We are using the Tar.exe of the following license in one of our applications. We are using the Tar.exe with the following license:
 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
GNU General Public License is available at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php> ;
 
Documentation and Source code for TAR are available at:
 
http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html
<http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html> 

 

This utility is invoked by our application. We got an error message by this utility and we are not very sure about the root cause. Here is a snapshot of the same:

 

We use this utility to create a Tar file, by executing the following command:

Tar.exe -c --atime-preserve -f "\\10.76.244.253\cme-upgrade\Backup06-19-08#13-27.tar" \\STI\\Backup

 

Can you let us know what the above error "Cannot open \\10.76.244.253\cme-upgrade\Backup06-19-08#13-27.tar: Invalid argument" means? The folder "cme-upgrade" in the machine 10.76.244.253 is shared and has full permissions, and can be accessed from this machine, where the application is run.

 

Let me know if you have any questions. Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Abhishake Jha