Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:55:53 -0700 From: "Dale Scott" <dalescott@shaw.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: freebsd tar fails but not gtar ?!? Message-ID: <00d101d399eb$318a7c40$949f74c0$@shaw.ca>
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Hi all. I noticed the tar backup of my WordPress content directory is failing. It may be coincidental that the filenames tar is failing are longer than 99-characters, which was reportedly a failing of the “old” tar. I installed gtar from packages and it completes successfully. Adding –posix to the tar command doesn’t help. It’s been suggested that locale on the system isn’t set correctly. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Fwiw, the failing long filenames were auto-generated by WordPress. I was writing a blog post in Chrome on a Windows system and found I could paste images from the Windows clipboard directly into the WordPress editor. Thanks, Dale dale@whizzer:~ % uname -a FreeBSD whizzer.dalescott.net 11.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Nov 14 06:12:40 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 First, basic native tar on FreeBSD 11.1 dale@whizzer:~ % sudo tar cf /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar /usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content tar: Removing leading '/' from member names : Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-. png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 150x150.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 300x201.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 768x514.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 1024x686.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 100x100.png' to UTF-8dale@whizzer:~ % dale@whizzer:~ % Next, native freebsd tar with --posix flag (google found some Linux posts that indicated pre-posix tar had a filename length limit) dale@whizzer:~ % sudo tar cf --posix /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar /usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content tar: Removing leading '/' from member names : Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-. png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 150x150.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 300x201.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 768x514.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 1024x686.png' to UTF-8: Can't translate pathname 'usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-25-14_52_00-fix- Removed-leave-and-join-chapter-web-pages-by-vishdha-·-Pull-Request-111-·-- 100x100.png' to UTF-8dale@whizzer:~ % Finally with gtar dale@whizzer:~ % gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. dale@whizzer:~ % sudo gtar cf /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar /usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content gtar: Removing leading `/' from member names dale@whizzer:~ % ls /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar dale@whizzer:~ % ls -lh /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 505M Jan 28 19:46 /backup/yyyy-mm-dd/webapps/wordpress_wp-content.tar dale@whizzer:~ % Output of locale: dale@whizzer:~ % sudo locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_ALL= dale@whizzer:~ % --- Dale R. Scott, P.Eng. Web: http://www.dalescott.net <http://www.dalescott.net/>;
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