This script produces an error. "tar: Cannot rename 'backup/dir1' to 'backup/dir2': Directory not empty"
This is a use case that we would like to be able to handle. I've seen other threads describe this problem too. Here are the links to the other threads. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2008-07/msg00005.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/freezer/+bug/1570304 http://osdir.com/ml/bug-tar-gnu/2011-11/msg00016.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648048 Here is the script that produces the error. #!/bin/bash set -o xtrace rm -rf backup backup.2.tar backup.tar listed-incr mkdir backup mkdir backup/dir1 mkdir backup/dir2 echo "aa" > backup/dir1/dir1-file1 echo "aa" > backup/dir2/dir2-file1 tar --create --file=backup.tar --listed-incremental=./listed-incr backup rm -rf backup/dir2 mv backup/dir1 backup/dir2 tar --create --file=backup.2.tar --listed-incremental=./listed-incr backup tar --extract --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.tar tar --extract --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.2.tar tar: Cannot rename 'backup/dir1' to 'backup/dir2': Directory not empty tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Will this problem be addressed and fixed, or is there some fundamental underlying reason why the problem will not be fixed? Thanks. -- Deklan Dieterly Senior Systems Software Engineer HPE
