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Re: [Bug-tar] --listed-incremental issue and --list failure.
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Andrew Henry |
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Re: [Bug-tar] --listed-incremental issue and --list failure. |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:02:17 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) |
Andrew Henry wrote:
> I'm running tar 1.18 on kernel 2.6.22-14 and trying to perform
> incremental backups with script below, levels 0, 1 & 2. Every time I
> create a level 2 after creating a level 0 it just does a full level 0
> again but the file size is slightly larger than the original level 0.
> It's acting really weird. If I perform backup of /home which is 14GB
> then it performs full backups even when doing level 2. If I change
> *only* the directory in the script to tar /home/andrew/test, and perform
> backup level 0 then add files/change files etc, then level 2 works
> perfectly. Why is it failing on larger inputs?
>
Of course, if you spend days trying to figure this out, then give up and
send a mail to the list, then *obviously* the answer comes to you two
minutes after sending the mail! The reason for this was so silly, i'm
embarrassed to mention it... I perform level0 backup to save file to
/home, and when i did level2, I still had original tarball from level0
in /home. Doh!!
Second problem is still a problem though.
> Second issue is that tar --list archive.tar is not working for me at
> all. It just hangs until ctrl-c is pressed. Is it supposed to output
> to stdout?
>
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