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Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with
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John E Hein |
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Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with --listed-incremental |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:59:12 -0700 |
John E Hein wrote at 09:52 -0700 on Dec 12:
> Before I try to come up with a patch, I am soliciting your opinion
> as to whether this is a bug or not. Do you agree that the following
> behavior (extracted from the info pages, Node: Dealing with Old Files)
> is inappropriate when using --listed-incremental? I am referring
> specifically to the behavior when an existing non-empty directory
> conflicts with a file in an "incremental" archive.
I think this is not a bug since tar provides --recursive-unlink.
Using this with the extraction of the incremental archive seems to
accomplish the desired effect (as when restoring an entire
filesystem from a set of full & incremental archives).