Hello, when extracting an incremental archive to a directory specified with -C, files that were removed in later backup levels are _not removed_ from the disk. It is reproducible with GNU tar 1.26. Behaviour was correct in version 1.23.
Example: $ tar --listed-incremental=testdir.snar -cvf testdir.tar testdir tar: testdir: Directory is new testdir/ testdir/file1 testdir/file2 $ rm testdir/file2 $ tar --listed-incremental=testdir.snar -cvf testdir.1.tar testdir testdir/ $ tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null -xvf testdir.tar -C extract/ testdir/ testdir/file1 testdir/file2 $ tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null -xvf testdir.1.tar -C extract/ testdir/ $ ls extract/testdir/ file1 file2 <---- file2 should not exists here! Best Regards, Robert -- Róbert Čerňanský E-mail: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected]
