On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my tests, using --listed-incremental with --one-file-system can cause > some filesystems to be skipped if they are listed on the command line and > are also mounted inside an earlier listed filesystem. welcome to my nightmare - i have never been able to get this to work and the worst part is it just silently fails to back up whole file systems no error code nor error message. it only affects me if i do like you: use listed-incremental flag + one-file-system + list multiple files systems + one other you don't list - it only happens to me if there are many 100,000 of files (maybe even if it is near millions) other diff is it happens to me not on nested file systems, just random ones (usually the ones with tons of files - causes the listed-incremental code to fail - sergey provided a patch many years ago which improved the situation but then later after file systems grew more the problem came back and I could never get another patch for unknown reasons) mine is with 1.15.92 but i tried some 1.20.x with same result only solution i know of is to do each file system separately (or not use gnu tar for incrementals)
