----- Original Message ----- > MAILTO: [email protected] > > Subject: BUG report: GNU tar 1.23 can't create incremental backups on > '/' dir > > Tar version affected: > root@host2 ~]# tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.23 > > Systems affected: > (1) Linux host1 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 #1 SMP Fri Nov 12 04:17:17 GMT 2010 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > (2) Linux host2 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 > BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > Hello bugreport, > > Our house-made backup program can't create incremental backups any > longer when we moved to CentOS 6, GNU tar 1.23. > Both 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS6 systems have the problem.
Hi, current tar version is 1.26 and this problem you are experiencing with CentOS 6 is probably fixed there ... Try patches from http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02632.html and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=40dea1ae7fc892a54eae2efd30ddd8559c697525 Issues with incremental backups on '/' dir were already reported in RHEL-6 as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653433 , so it will hopefully get fixed in CentOS6 once approved for an update in RHEL-6. Greetings, Ondrej Vasik
