RE: [Bug-tar] gtar --listed-incremental silently failing again

[MrC]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Poznyakoff
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:37 AM
> To: Dat Head
> Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] gtar --listed-incremental silently 
> failing again
> 
> Dat Head ha escrit:
> 
> > /usr/local/bin/gtar --version
> > tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92
> 
> MrC  ha escrit:
> 
> > I'm seeing an issue with tar 1.16 (plus patch indicated below) where
> 
> Please try the CVS version, or at least the latest stable, 
> which is 1.16.1.  There were several incremental-related 
> fixes recently.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

Thanks for the response Sergey.  Unfortunately, today's CVS does not resolve
the problem.  Incremental is still randomly either performing essentially a
full archive, or nothing at all.  I can't determine what triggers the
randomness, but it seems to be related to prior incremental runs, which
store their archives in peer subdirectories (eg. dir/backupA, dir/backupB,
... dir/backupC).  If I do an incremental backup on only dir/backupC
repeatedly, incremental seems to work.  If I run all backups, dir/backupC
will then perform a full backup, despite previously having just completed
many individual incremental backups for dir/backupC.

Any other ideas for debugging ?

MrC