Hi all,
I have been using tar for many many years under Ubuntu without any
problems.
We recently moved from Ubuntu 10.04 to using Xubuntu 12.04 and
that it is when the tar problems started with our backup script.
Under Xubuntu 12.04 (ext4 filesystem, XFCE 4.10, hardware raid 1)
it uses tar v1.26. When tar creates an incremental tar of our data
I noticed that the backup logs contained messages regarding
directories that have been renamed.
Reviewing these changed directories I soon realised the
directories had not been renamed.
One of the messages from tar told me that /home had been renamed.
I do not believe it had because the time stamp was still in the
past and that 'stat /home' output the same details compared to
what it had output the previous day.
On Ubuntu 10.04 it used tar v1.22. So I tried to see if I could
move back some versions but I hit another problem because of
gcc-4.5. The fix I found @
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-04/msg00023.html
I believe is not complete as my backup logs now fail on
verification on certain folders about contents differing, again
even though I know that the contents have not changed.
Has anyone come across this problem before with tar v1.26. Is
there anywhere else that I should be looking to find out why tar
thinks directories are being renamed when they are not?
Regards,
Tim.
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