Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore seems to first create then rename

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Felix,

Felix E. Klee <address@hidden> wrote:

> when I try to restore an listed-incremental backup where in an
> incremental step
> 
>     a directory A is to be renamed into B and a file A is to be created
> 
> then I get an error message
> 
>     tar: A: Cannot open: File exists.

Use --recursive-unlink option. E.g. in your testcase:

(cd restore
    tar --recursive-unlink -xg snapshot -f ../2.tar)

Regards,
Sergey