Bdale Garbee <[email protected]> wrote:
> A user of my Debian packaging of tar notes that an incremental dump
> during which a directory is deleted and another directory is renamed to
> match the original name of the deleted directory will fail to restore:
>
> tar: Cannot rename `tartest/dir2' to `tartest/dir1': Directory not empty
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
This is a problem that I reported in 2004 already. The problem was discovered
while running the first test for the new incremental dump/restore format in
star.
I am not sure whether it is possible to solve the problem without introducing a
new incompatible dump format in GNU tar. AFAIK Gnu tar tries to detect and
understand all changes while creating the archive by using a partial database
during create. Star detects and understands changes at extract time by using a
complete database which coveres all files.
Star with it's incremental dump format that was inspired by ufsdump is able to
handle all known deltas on a filesystem.
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/
Star is running an incremental dump + incremental restore once a day on
berlios.de with not a single problem since March 2005. There is a typical
amount of 2-10 GB of changes per day and more than 2000 successful dump/restore
operations in incremental mode since then.
Jörg
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