[Fwd: Re: [Bug-tar] tar doesn't honor --exclude-caches with --listed-incremental]

[Andrew Henry]

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Subject:	Re: [Bug-tar] tar doesn't honor --exclude-caches with --listed-incremental
Date:	Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:38:13 +0100
From:	Dan H. <address@hidden>
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Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> No, it's simply that exclude-caches is a relatively new feature 
> which is not yet fully integrated.  I will certainly implement it
> for incremental backups as well.

That's good to hear. Actually I wasn't even aware that tar (GNU tar,
that is) is still actively developed. I thought it was merely a
well-conserved UNIX dinosaur piece of software.

Anyway, keep up the good work (and thanks for keeping it up!)

D.

That's excellent!  I wondered why --exclude-caches wasn't working with my incrementals!

I had stopped using the feature, which was a shame.

--andrew

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