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I have an Indigo2 who's system disk I've been succesfully backing up to
DAT using the 'Backup' command under Irix 5.3.

In the verbose output I noticed a bru error- something to the effect of
'lost file <somename>, name (or path?) too long' and it goes on to list
a path that is shortened with a // somewhere in the name.

How do I get around this? I need to be able to do a full system backup
including these files with really long pathnames that bru doesn't seem
to be able to handle.

Is there another method for doing a system backup that will leave me
with a tape that can be restored onto a clean HD if nead be?

thanks for any help,
greg

| I have an Indigo2 who's system disk I've been succesfully backing up to
| DAT using the 'Backup' command under Irix 5.3.
|
| In the verbose output I noticed a bru error- something to the effect of
| 'lost file <somename>, name (or path?) too long' and it goes on to list
| a path that is shortened with a // somewhere in the name.
|
| How do I get around this? I need to be able to do a full system backup
| including these files with really long pathnames that bru doesn't seem
| to be able to handle.

By using cpio, or shorter paths.  More than likely, the omitted
files are symlinks for desktop icons in users home dirs, or some
of the installed software (tooltalk was the most likely one in 5.3,
if I remember right).

Another way to handle it is to gather the long names up, and
either copy them to another directory with a shorter name, or
cd further down in the directory tree before backing them up.

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Dave Olson, Silicon Graphics
I plan to be on sabbatical from 16 March to 26 April 98