To my knowledge, tar does not support windows file sharing strings (\\server\filename).
I'm frankly a surprised that such a large team of folks couldn't figure that out, particularly since you included a link to the documentation in the first email. Dustin On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Alagappan Muthuraman -X (alagu - WIPRO at Cisco) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Can you please acknowledge this email? Appreciate your immediate > response on this issue. > > - Alagappan C.M. > ________________________________ > From: Abhishake Jha -X (abjha - WIPRO at Cisco) > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Srikanth S (srikans); Alagappan Muthuraman -X (alagu - WIPRO at Cisco); > Madhav Gopinath -X (madhavg - WIPRO at Cisco); Swarup Roy Chowdhury > (swroycho) > Subject: RE: Regarding error message returned by Tar utility > Importance: High > > Hi All, > > Would appreciate your response on this issue. Please let us know about the > error, and the cause for the same. > > Thanks, > Abhishake > ________________________________ > From: Abhishake Jha -X (abjha - WIPRO at Cisco) > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:30 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Cc: Srikanth S (srikans); Alagappan Muthuraman -X (alagu - WIPRO at Cisco); > Madhav Gopinath -X (madhavg - WIPRO at Cisco) > Subject: Regarding error message returned by Tar utility > Importance: High > > Hi All, > > I am Abhishake Jha working in India. I have a query regarding the GNU > Tar.exe in this e-mail and would very appreciate a response to this e-mail. > We are using the Tar.exe of the following license in one of our > applications. We are using the Tar.exe with the following license: > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free > Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later > version. > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General > Public License for more details. > GNU General Public License is available at > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php > <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php> ; > > Documentation and Source code for TAR are available at: > > http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html > <http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html> > > This utility is invoked by our application. We got an error message by this > utility and we are not very sure about the root cause. Here is a snapshot of > the same: > > We use this utility to create a Tar file, by executing the following > command: > Tar.exe -c --atime-preserve -f > "\\10.76.244.253\cme-upgrade\Backup06-19-08#13-27.tar" \\STI\\Backup > > Can you let us know what the above error "Cannot open > \\10.76.244.253\cme-upgrade\Backup06-19-08#13-27.tar: Invalid argument" > means? The folder "cme-upgrade" in the machine 10.76.244.253 is shared and > has full permissions, and can be accessed from this machine, where the > application is run. > > Let me know if you have any questions. Your quick response will be highly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Abhishake Jha > -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
