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

[MrC]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MrC
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:13 PM
> Cc: 'Sergey Poznyakoff'; 'Dat Head'
> Subject: RE: [Bug-tar] gtar --listed-incremental silently 
> failing again
> 
> 
> > -----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
> 

Sorry, don't mean to be a pest.  Any help or progress on this issue with
listed-incremental ?

Thanks,
MrC