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gnu tar dumps all directories in incremental mode
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Michael Grant |
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gnu tar dumps all directories in incremental mode |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:30:51 GMT |
% tar --version
GNU tar version 1.11.2
This is the version of gnu tar that I have on freebsd 4.4.
It seems like a bug to me that when I do an incremental dump using
either --listed-incremental or --newer-mtime "1 day ago", tar dumps
directories which have nothing in them which have been modified.
For example:
% ls -R t
a b q/ s/
t/q:
t/s:
a
% touch t/s/a
% tar -cg t.date -f t.tar t
% tar -tvf t.tar
drwxr-xr-x mgrant/mgrant 13 Oct 29 15:16 2001 t/
drwxr-xr-x mgrant/mgrant 1 Oct 29 15:16 2001 t/q/
drwxr-xr-x mgrant/mgrant 4 Oct 29 15:16 2001 t/s/
-rw-r--r-- mgrant/mgrant 0 Oct 29 15:24 2001 t/s/a
Why did it dump t/q?
It's not so tragic in this situation, but when you do an incremental
on a hugh filesystem, the tar file is hugh when nearly nothing was
modified.
-mgrant
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