Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> > So it collects a list of files in a textfile, and then either
> > $tarxcmd = "tar -c -f - | $COMPRESSOR > $ar";
> > or
> > $tarxcmd = "tar -r -f $ar >/dev/null";
>
> With the second of these, $ar isn't a compressed file name, like
> foo.tar.gz? Which was used for the problem tar file?
>
> > and then
> > unless (open XARGS, "| xargs -0 $tarxcmd 2>>$MFFN") {
>
> So xargs may run tar more than once, and if $#{$listref} has been
> growing then perhaps it's tipped over from one invocation to two
> recently?
If you like to create working incremental backups that are able to handle file
renames, you need to backup any filesystem with exactly one command run, so
xargs is a really bad idea.
Jörg
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