Re: [Bug-tar] Listed incremental problem...

[Joerg Schilling]

"MrC" <address@hidden> wrote:

> [ resent - original did not appear ]
>
> I'm seeing an issue with tar 1.16 (plus patch indicated below) where
> --listed-incremental is sometimes not working correctly.  The issue looked
> similar to :
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-01/msg00002.html

I am not sure about the problems you have...


I have so far never been able to use GNU tar correclty for incremental restores
with the test cases I did set up for testing incrementals with star.
GNU tar did always faile with some kind of renamed directories.

Please note that the archive format used by GNU tar for incrementals
is not very sparse, it will always archive a complete subdir tree if a directory
has been renamed.

If you are interested in a mature inremental backup sulution you may try 
a recent version of star

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

Jörg

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