Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Jörg,

> If you like to create working incremental backups that are able to
> handle file renames, you need to backup any filesystem with exactly
> one command run, so xargs is a really bad idea.

Agreed.  I was just trying to help Steffen out of the hole he'd already
dug.  :-)  Instead of xargs, GNU tar has -T to take the list of files
from a file instead of argv[], and star has list=... that's similar.

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