Hi, all I tried to backup/restore using tar incremental options. But there are some errors when extract archive files.
In detail, there are two archive file. archive.1.tar and archive.2.tar archive.1.tar is test/ test/a test/b archive.2.tar is test/ test/a test/b <deleted> Now, I expect file 'b' is deleted when I extract all .tar files. If there are no option except --listed-incremental, result is OK. nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ tar xvf archive.1.tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null test/ test/a test/b nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ tar xvf archive.2.tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null test/ *tar: Deleting `test/b'* But, When I plus -C or --strip-components options, deleting isn't happen. -C nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ mkdir restore nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ tar xvf archive.1.tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null -C restore/ test/ test/a test/b nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ tar xvf archive.2.tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null -C restore/ test/ nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ ls restore/test/ a *b* --strip-components nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ tar xvf archive.1.tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null --strip-components 1 test/a test/b nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ tar xvf archive.2.tar --listed-incremental=/dev/null --strip-components 1 nova@compute2:~/archive/restore$ ls a archive.1.tar archive.2.tar *b* Regards, Jay
