I'm currently working on a task of archiving an old web application. I made back-ups of the database and the application itself, now I'm trying to back-up the filestore that contains all uploaded files.
Unfortunately, said application hasn't always correctly handled uploaded files, which has resulted in a lot of files containing the full pathname on the client that uploaded them, for example "C:\test\test.doc".
I want to create a tar archive containing all the files, but tar cf gives errors on files having a colon in their name. I tried escaping, but no luck.
An example:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29696 Jan 3 09:43 C:\test\test.doc
Just tar everything:
[root@server test]# tar cf test.tar *
tar: C\:\test\test.doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Surrounded by double quotes:
[root@server test]# tar cf test.tar "C:\\test\\test.doc"
tar: C\:\test\test.doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Using the escape character:
[root@server test]# tar cf test.tar C\:\\test\\test.doc
tar: C\:\test\test.doc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Is there a way to achieve this (without file rename)?
Use . to archive the whole directory instead of *
tar cf ../test.tar .
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