pax/ustar not properly handling long pathnames

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:29, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but I just realized I
> > forgot to plug my favorite backup system here:
> > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
> > This stores backups on disk using a clever compression and
> > linking scheme to greatly increase the number of backups it
> > can hold and it provides a nice web interface to browse
> > the backups.  You can restore to the original location or
> 
> If I understand what you wrote correctly, this is not a backup
> utility. It simply pushes the backup issue onto another machine.
> The backup medium must have an expected lifetime longer than
> the medium being backed up.

I deal with that by using RAID1 (mirrors) for the archive
and periodically swapping one out and re-syncing to another.
I do it mostly to have an offsite copy but it has also
been a quick fix for a drive failure and would allow a
theoretically infinite life for the copy - or at least as
long as anyone cares about it...

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  Les Mikesell
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