How to create an archive with TAR.NLM (instead of ZIP.NLM)

(Last modified: 10Oct2001)

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goal

fact

NetWare 4.11
NetWare 5.x
NetWare 6.x

symptom

The customer wishes to create an archive on the NetWare server, of all the files on a volume, which include long file names.

cause

Server crashed, need to move files off the server and onto a spare drive the customer has mounted as an extra volume.

fix

NetWare 5: LOAD TAR.NLM --create --verbose --totals --file=sys:\test.tar "Long File Name Directory"
NetWare 4: LOAD TAR.NLM --create --verbose --totals --file=test.tar "Long File Name Directory"

Note the --file parameter is different, NetWare 4 is a bit fussy, it doesn't like the volume name. The "Long File Name Directory" in this case is an actual directory to put into the archive recursively (ie: with subdirectories). Note that it seems to have a problem putting empty directories into the archives. There's a few other small quirks, but it certainly gets the job done in a disaster.. and works well. WinZip can open it up etc too.

TAR.NLM is actually compiled from GNU TAR. You can obtain the GNU TAR Reference manual from http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/ which includes all the command line parameters.

You can also use TAR.NLM --help to display command line options. This can be piped out to a file such as SYS:\TARINFO.TXT using the following command:
LOAD TAR.NLM (CLIB_OPT)/>TARINFO.TXT

Keywords: PKZIP UNZIP GZIP TAR ZIP.NLM UNZIP.NLM TAR.NLM ARCHIVE DISASTER

document

Document Title:	How to create an archive with TAR.NLM (instead of ZIP.NLM)
Document ID:	10063503
Solution ID:	NOVL52872
Creation Date:	13Jul2001
Modified Date:	10Oct2001
Novell Product Class:	NetWare

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