suntar - create tape archives and add or extract files

suntar command [ options ] file1 ... filen

This manual page documents an emulation of the Sun version of tar. It has been implemented on top of the star program.

For a description of the Sun tar program check the Sun tar manual page.

The extended options are options taken from star.

--help

Prints a summary of the most important options for suntar(1) and exits.

--xhelp

Prints a summary of the less important options for suntar(1) and exits.

--version

Prints the suntar version number string and exists.

--debug

print additional debug messages

xdebug=#

xd=#

set extended debug level

-/

don't strip leading '/'s from file names

-..

don't skip filenames that contain '..' in non-interactive extract

--secure-links

don't extract links that start with '/' or contain '..'

--acl

handle access control lists

--xfflags

handle extended file flags

bs=#

set (output) block size to #

fs=#

set fifo size to #

--no-fsync

do not call fsync() for each extracted file (may be dangerous)

--time

print timing info

--no-statistics

do not print statistics

--fifostats

print fifo statistics

--no-fifo

don't use a fifo to optimize data flow from/to tape

--numeric

don't use user/group name from tape

-z

pipe input/output through gzip, does not work on tapes

--bz

pipe input/output through bzip2, does not work on tapes

The options above are not defined by Sun tar.

For a complete documentation of the star based optione check star(1).

spax(1), suntar(1), scpio(1), tar(1), cpio(1), pax(1), rcp(1), mt(1), rmt(1), match(1), dd(1), sdd(1), rsh(1), ssh(1), star(1), star(4/5), rcmd(3), fssnap(1m)

This suntar implementation is based on the star implementation and does not implement all features of the original Sun tar program.

Jorg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany

Mail bugs and suggestions to:

schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de or js@cs.tu-berlin.de or joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de