Re: [Bug-tar] Major Bug with tar and incremental backup using the -l and --listed-incremental flags

[Terry Barnaby]

Hi Sergey,

I didn't think this was expected behaviour ?
As I have listed on tar's command line all of the separate mounted
directories it should descend each of these. If any other directoies
are mounted below these they should not be traversed.

Older versions of tar handled this case .....

Terry

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Terry Barnaby <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > I normally perform full backups with a command similar to:
> >
> > tar -c -l -f /dev/st0 --listed-incremental=stamp / /usr /dist /src /home
> >
> > If I do this tar does not backup all of my systems files contained in
> > the separate mount points.
>
>
> This is expected behavior. Option -l (--one-file-system) means "stay in
> local file system when creating archive", i.e. tar does not descend into
> mount points when given this option.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey

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