tar: Removing leading `/' means?
 

I'm just wondering what does this mean :

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

I successfully run tar and created archive. I'm just wondering why is this appearing. Could it affect tar performance? Here is my command:

tar -czvf /home/backuppc/rbldns.tar.gz /var/lib/rbldns --exclude /var/lib/rbldns/var

Also, is there a test how can I verify if tar is corrupted?

I don't remember ever seeing this myself, but it probably just means that the archive you created has the '/'s removed so that when you untar the archive into a directory of your choosing, you won't have an extra '/' in there. So, for instance, you've tared the directory /var/lib/rbldns. Now let's say you want to untar that into a directory '/some/directory/'. If tar didn't strip the leading '/'s, then the result would be something like '/var/lib/rbldns//some/directory'. That is, you have an extra '/' in there that you don't want. That's my interpretation of what's going on.

From the GNU Tar book.

I added -P into -czvf and it is now oks. Probably its the absolute path