On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:01, Benjamin Lewis wrote: >Gene, > >> I'm noting this in the email reports amanda sends me, where it >> doesn't make any diff what the runlevel is, its backing up the >> whole iso image for all levels. > >[...] > >> coyote -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 1 563 563 -- >> 3:1 3005.2 2:3 3787.3 > >[...] > >Am I interpreting this correctly: you have individual files listed > in the disklist? If so, I'm not sure how else GNUtar could respond. > A level 1 backup of an individual file doesn't make much sense to > me. I did that at one point so I could add them one by one without spoiling the schedueling that badly, but I see your point and I'll reduce it to the directory itself.
>Reading between the lines of the incremental archive format >description in the GNUtar info pages, it seems to me that the >incremental options to GNUtar are likely to depend on having a >directory entry in the tar file. > >I would expect that you might see small incrementals if you > specified the FC3 directory in the disklist rather than the > individual files themselves. > >-Ben Thanks Ben, one more time the forest got in the way of seeing the trees... :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.