On May 17, 2001, Ron Stanonik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for the newbie question, but how can tar be configured so
> that after restoring a full and an incremental the filesystem has
> exactly the files at the time of the incremental, not any files
> which were present during the full but removed before the incremental.
Use -G at restore time. From the GNU tar manual:
`--incremental' (`-G') in conjunction with `--extract' (`--get',
`-x') causes `tar' to read the lists of directory contents previously
stored in the archive, _delete_ files in the file system that did not
exist in their directories when the archive was created, and then
extract the files in the archive.
This behavior is convenient when restoring a damaged file system from
a succession of incremental backups: it restores the entire state of
the file system to that which obtained when the backup was made. If
`--incremental' (`-G') isn't specified, the file system will probably
fill up with files that shouldn't exist any more.
--
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