On 5/8/07, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Please try the CVS version, or at least the latest stable, which is
> 1.16.1. There were several incremental-related fixes recently.
tried stable 1.16.1 and tar-1.16.2-20070123 (from alpha.gnu) and
neither work, none of the files in the 8.5 million file fs get picked
up at all still.
orig message below:
On 5/7/07, Dat Head <address@hidden> wrote:
> i thought this bug was squashed in tar-1.15.92 (-20060707), we had
> the problem before that and special patches were put into that version
> that made the issue go away at that time; however, as time has one
> on and more files have been added to filesystem the bug is again back
> and *silently* it just does not back up *any* files in that file system.
>
> the original bug (and i'm sure this one) is due to the number of
> files (see below,
> about 8.5 million inodes now) and something wrong with --listed-incremental
> processing (because it does not happen w/o that flag, but we need it). it
> has to do with more than just the number of files though as we found before
> that changing the placement of where in the order of fs's would sometimes make
> it work (or not), if we just backup this problem one and two others
> it works ok,
> but somehow the below combination does not
>
> /usr/local/bin/gtar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92
>
> executing "/usr/local/bin/gtar -c -f address@hidden:/dev/sdlt27nr -b 256 -v -
> -one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --listed-incremental
> /usr/local/adm/etc/bckincremental.xray ./ /home /usr/local /usr/LOCAL /ftp /vol1
/tools /ftp/data/2 "
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 9898580 4228320 5167428 46% /
> /dev/sda2 9898612 1512032 7883748 17% /home
> /dev/sdc1 9400448 6558612 2364308 74% /usr/local
> /dev/sda5 4040000 169556 3665216 5% /usr/LOCAL
> /dev/sdc2 19243772 1873880 16392340 11% /ftp
> /dev/sdb2 10301792 5590436 4711356 55% /vol1
> /dev/sdc3 28170276 5099804 21639484 20% /tools
> /dev/sdc4 231548312 20971700 198814624 10% /ftp/data/2
>
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 1259104 102907 1156197 9% /
> /dev/sda2 1259104 12894 1246210 2% /home
> /dev/sdc1 1196032 53668 1142364 5% /usr/local
> /dev/sda5 514048 2711 511337 1% /usr/LOCAL
> /dev/sdc2 2448000 93584 2354416 4% /ftp
> /dev/sdb2 1310720 272486 1038234 21% /vol1
> /dev/sdc3 3581088 18604 3562484 1% /tools
> /dev/sdc4 29409280 8786224 20623056 30% /ftp/data/2
>
> it sees that it is new (previous listed incremental file removed
> before this run to kick in a full backup), and sticks on mount point but that
is it:
>
> /usr/local/bin/gtar: /ftp/data/2: Directory is new
> /ftp/data/2/