Hi! I've got problem with tar incremental backups. I'm making full backup every week: #tar -c -z --listed-incremental=archive.0.snar -f archive.0.tgz crucial_data/*
And every day between full backups I'm making incremental backups. Every incremental backup is based on full backup: #cp archive.0.snar archive.1.snar #tar -c -z --listed-incremental=archive.1.snar -f archive.1.tgz crucial_data/* Everything works great. In case on emergency I've to extract full backup and the newest incremental backup. But there is a little problem. I've read in tar manual that incremental archive should contain information about deleted or renamed files. Everything should be in Dumdir section: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_87.html But when I extract my archive I'm getting all files, even those deleted. #tar -x -z --listed-incremental=/dev/null -f archive.0.tgz #tar -x -z --listed-incremental=/dev/null -f archive.n.tgz I cannot also list my archive as it is described in manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_88.html#DOCF12 That means a list with dumpdir information about every file in the archive. Does anybody knows what I'm doing wrong? Is there a problem in archiving or in restoring? I'm using tar in 1.19 version and gnu internal archive format. -- petee _______________________________________________ help-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-tar
