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

for example, lets say users might come to you and ask you to restore files from their home directories, you can do so pretty easy by using the --extract (x) tar command like this:

lets say you have this commnad:



this sequence involves changing to the root directory and issuing a relative path to the file or directory that must be restored. this is required because tar normally strips away the leading / in the files it backs up, so the files are recorded in the archive as relative filenames. if you try to restore the file with an absolute filename, ti will fail.

this is what that post says:

he "Backup Ideas" page[1] has an example shell script meant to be executed as a daily cron job.




That example includes an invocation of the tar command like this:



tar cj /etc /home/ /usr/local > $PREF-$$.tar.bz2



If you run a script containing a tar invocation of that form, you'll notice that root will get an e-mail message every time the script runs, with stderr warnings from the tar command saying "Removing leading `/' from member names".



You can eliminate those tar warnings by instead invoking the tar command like this:



tar cj -C / etc home usr/local > $PREF-$$.tar.bz2



The effect will be the same except that tar will no longer emit the "Removing leading `/' from member names" warnings to stderr -- because the -C option and slash argument tell tar to cd to the root directory before tarring up whatever directories or files are specified in the rest of the arguments list.



So you'll no longer get the unnecessary mail from that cron job -- you'll only get mail if something has actually gone wrong with the job.

when i first saw my error that said: tar removing leading from member names remove i thot i should conatc my top friends names from my database and then what happened i delete account and remove the names in the catalog list but i didnt realize that i had also removed the name of the mailing list. i did not want to remove any name when i was calling the list much delete thes names . so what i did i autocomplete the list instead of delete the skype user name which came with the database after the isntallation. it worked for a while but then after a couple of days the errror came back. so i had to reinstall the whole thing, then it didnt happen again. but this is normal when you are taring in a windows.. yeah, i know, i will start using linux instead of windows. the software is gpl so i think its in beta so far. i should have learned my lesson. but it looks like from your post that this also happens in linux anywayz so it shouldn't matter. so im not going to worry for now. thanks

Just found this: https://forum.bytemark.co.uk/viewtopic.php?pid=1937

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