Re: [Bug-tar] compare problems with truncated filenames

[Joerg Schilling]

"Dr. Jürgen Vollmer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> After writing the backup I compare it, and here the run into problems. After 
> loading tape 2 I got the following message:
>
> /usr/local/bin/tar: 
> `lvm-snapshot/snapshots/joergli/hourly.0/joergli/lvm-snapshot/vollmer/ba/wi.wu-wien.ac.at/wi-folien/kap_01/pdf/kap01_pdf.zip'
>  
> is not continued on this volume
>
> clearly, the filename was truncated before. 
>
> Due to that message, tar initiates to load the next tape, where the same 
> message occurs, etc. It seems that tar does not compare the second, 
> third, ... tape.
>
> What can be done? Do you need more information?

This is exactly the problem I did find 3 years ago and that has been
reported by and is also mentioned in the star documentation.

>From what I can tell, you may extract the archives using star ;-)

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

Jörg

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