Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS?

Question

Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS ?

I'm not talking about a sync or filecopy tool like robocopy,
but an incremental backup tool like cobian backup (which cannot handle it).

Answer 1

Please note that I am not familiar with Cobian. Presently I use a simple script run from a CentOS vmware machine running in my Windows 7 host workstation to handle long path values:

#! /bin/bash
echo Backup Started `date` >> ~/backuplog
mkdir /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`
tar -cvf /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`/docs.data.tar /mnt/hgfs/c/Users/username
7za a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`.7za /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`
mv /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`.7za /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`
rm /mnt/hgfs/g/Backups/`date +%Y%m%d`/*.tar
echo Backup Completed `date` >> ~/backuplog

For an incremental script, you may want to look at the following pages:

• Linux / UNIX Tar Full and Incremental Tape Backup Shell Script

• [bash] Simple backup (cp) script but incremental