On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this possibly my problem Dustin? > > NO-UNQUOTE > If "NO" (the default), gnutar doesn't get the --no-unquote option > and the diskname can't have some characters, eg. '\'. If "YES", then the > --no-unquote option is given to gnutar and the diskname can have any > characters. This option is available only if you are using tar-1.16 or > newer. > > How do I enable this option? (and shouldn't it be YES by default for a > normal install? whats the downside?)
Possibly. It's not default because it will break tar<1.16. Tar's quoting behavior is fantastically complicated - see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/GNU_Tar_Include_and_Exclude_Behavior But give it a shot! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
