[Bug-tar] Re: tar: incremenatal backup

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:07:54PM +0200, Niels Laukens wrote:
> tar cvf full.tar --listed-incremental list.lst test
> rm test/some.file
> tar cvf incr.tar --listed-incremental list.lst test
> rm -r test
> 
> tar xvf full.tar --listed-incremental list.lst
> 
> Here, tar doesn't extract the test-tree, but extracts dirs like
> 07713157175/test/...

I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.  I'm using tar 1.13.25 on a GNU/Linux
system.  Could you please try tar 1.13.25, if you are using an older
version?  It would also help to the tar maintainer if you could post
details about your environment (OS, version of tar).

Regards,
        Stepan Kasal