Re: [Bug-tar] Problem with --listed-incremental and --one-file-system

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:39:46 -0400, Chris Schanzle <address@hidden> said:

  Chris> While doing a test disaster recovery with a Fedora Linux box that has 
  Chris> /boot and / as separate filesystems, I discovered that during the 
  Chris> restore of the first incremental, the contents of /boot were removed.  
  Chris> Below is a similar test to illustrate my problem.  Did I find a bug or 
  Chris> just a new mistake in my methods?

A workaround is to keep separate tars for each filesystem, so they can be
restored in isolation.  In particular, the restore order can be

full /
all incrementals of /
full /boot
all incrementals of /boot

__Martin