While migrating data between multiple servers I ran into a few interesting situations with SSH that I thought would be worth mentioning. If nothing else it will add some more documentation to this site. Solaris tar vs. GNU tar After using tar for years on Linux I always figured all tar’s were the same until I tried to untar an archive on Solaris. When I untar’ed a Linux tar archive on Solaris I ran into an error along with a @LongLink file in my directory. This was caused by incompatabilities between GNU tar and the default tar bundled in Solaris. …