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

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> 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.

-l means: Report if all of the links to the files being archived cannot be 
        resolved. If l is not specified, no error messages are written. 

But even when asuming -l == --one-file-system, it would be a miss behavior 
except when there are sub mounts in /usr /dist /src /home 

Jörg

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