Linux Tar Getting Removing leading `/' from member names When Executed

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pinguin

Sat Jan 13, 2007

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hi, can anyone helpme, when i send the tar command, i get this:

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Removing leading `/' from member names

when i look at my directory, i see that the tar has been created, but i was wondering if this is going to cause a problem when i try to untar it since this is going to be a back up file and if there any goes wrong, i want to make sure i am doing it right. not sure if i executed incorectly on my linux server.

thanks

Asish

Tue Jun 29, 2010

Give the option P to preserve the leading / ie: tar -cvPf <tar fill name> <folder/file to be tarred>

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jayaprakash

Thu Oct 13, 2011

thanks ashish

Vidya

Thu Jul 21, 2011

Thanks Asish..your comment helped me solve my "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" warning.

Sun Aug 24, 2008

try:
tar czf /tmp/myarchive.tar.gz -c / etc home

apparently the order is sometimes important :-)

stevee

Fri Jul 04, 2008

hi,
this is normal for tar, the / is a relative directory boundary in the tree structure, and tar is aware and will replace them correctly when untarring - you should test your backup anyway before relying on it, on a spare partition or pc and check it untars correctly using
#tar -xvf filename.tar
you can list the files in the tarball without untarring them as a rough check maybe if its not to big to read or your fastidious..
#tar -tvf file.tar where -t is "list", -v "verbose" -f "file" -x " extract
also read the man pages on commands you use: #man tar
cheers
stevee

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