Re: [Bug-tar] --listed-incremental issue and --list failure.

[Andrew Henry]

Andrew Henry wrote:
> I'm running tar 1.18 on kernel 2.6.22-14 and trying to perform
> incremental backups with script below, levels 0, 1 & 2.  Every time I
> create a level 2 after creating a level 0 it just does a full level 0
> again but the file size is slightly larger than the original level 0.
> It's acting really weird.  If I perform backup of /home which is 14GB
> then it performs full backups even when doing level 2.  If I change
> *only* the directory in the script to tar /home/andrew/test, and perform
> backup level 0 then add files/change files etc, then level 2 works
> perfectly.  Why is it failing on larger inputs?
>   
Of course, if you spend days trying to figure this out, then give up and
send a mail to the list, then *obviously* the answer comes to you two
minutes after sending the mail!  The reason for this was so silly, i'm
embarrassed to mention it... I perform level0 backup to save file to
/home, and when i did level2, I still had original tarball from level0
in /home.  Doh!!

Second problem is still a problem though.
> Second issue is that tar --list archive.tar is not working for me at
> all.  It just hangs until ctrl-c is pressed.  Is it supposed to output
> to stdout?
>   
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