Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar exited with error 36096

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

>
> I find it interesting that the client file path is being cut off ~= 100
> characters.


That's a very good observation and an important clue.  The file header in
any tar file is limited to 100 characters, and there is a special extension
(basically another dummy file header with a payload containing the real
long path) to allow longer paths.  The same mechanism is used for long soft
link targets.

So either this a very old version of tar, as you suggest, or the extension
header isn't being recognized properly.

Craig