Re: [Bug-tar] Is --listed-incremental needed when restoring a full backup?

[Rob Browning]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

>> or do you need to keep the foo.snap file around and specify
>> --listed-incremental=foo.snap during the extract?
>
> Yes, you should use --listed-incremental when extracting as well.

OK, so even if I decide at some point that I want to delete all the
old incrementals and just keep the full backup, will I still need to
keep the full backup's snaphot file around?

I ask because for at least some commands, the docs mention that
although you need the --listed-incremental=SNAP option, the contents
of SNAP aren't important, i.e. --listed-incremental=/dev/null is fine
for --list.  I didn't know if extracting a full backup was also one of
those cases.

Thanks
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Rob Browning
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