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Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore seems to first create then rename

From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore seems to first create then rename
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:29:03 +0200
User-agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 
"Felix E. Klee" <address@hidden> wrote:


> Anyways, I'll look for a tool that does not backup entire directories,
> if they have only been moved since the last backup. Discovering such
> cases should be possible by looking at the inode number and the
> modification time: If the inode number and the modification time of a
> directory is identical to one stored in a previous backup, then those
> directories are identical. If the paths are different, then a move
> should take place upon restore.

Check 'star' ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

star-1.5a47 introduced a incremental restore that just does what you like...

Read AN-1.5a47 for more information.

Jörg

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