Re: [Bug-tar] BUG report: GNU tar 1.23 can't create incremental backups on '/' dir

[Ondrej Vasik]

----- Original Message -----
> MAILTO: address@hidden
> 
> Subject: BUG report: GNU tar 1.23 can't create incremental backups on
> '/' dir
> 
> Tar version affected:
> address@hidden ~]# tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.23
> 
> Systems affected:
> (1) Linux host1 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 #1 SMP Fri Nov 12 04:17:17 GMT 2010
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> (2) Linux host2 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27
> BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Hello bugreport,
> 
> Our house-made backup program can't create incremental backups any
> longer when we moved to CentOS 6, GNU tar 1.23.
> Both 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS6 systems have the problem.

Hi, current tar version is 1.26 and this problem you are experiencing
with CentOS 6 is probably fixed there ...

Try patches from http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02632.html
and 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=40dea1ae7fc892a54eae2efd30ddd8559c697525

Issues with incremental backups on '/' dir were already reported in RHEL-6 as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653433 ,
so it will hopefully get fixed in CentOS6 once approved for an update in RHEL-6.

Greetings,
         Ondrej Vasik