Just to have the final resolution of the issues originally reported in this thread recorded in the list archives:
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 17:24:17 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > Recently on the amanda-users mailing list there was a report from a > system administrator who moved some files from one partition to another, > then mounted the new one on top of the path where those files were > previously located... and then found that on subsequent level-1 backups, > tar crossed into the new filesystem even though the --one-file-system > option was in effect. Sergey pushed a fixed for this particular bug on Wed, 14 Nov 2012: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=643a8844a578ff146cfe746fe6091d29502b6c40 On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:04:20 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: [...] > I got to wondering if there were other situations were procdir() set > directory->children to NO_CHILDREN... and sure enough a quick test with > --exclude-tag= shows the same sort of behavior related to > subdir/subdir-file if the exclude-tag file is created under subdir/ > between the level 0 and level 1 backups. (The steps to reproduce are On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:31:38 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: [...] > As I was looking over the tar output from my earlier testing, I notice a > separate (but hopefully at least somewhat related) issue: adding > --listed_incremental appears to swap the meaning of --exclude-tag= and > --exclude-tag-under= . Both of these categories of issues were fixed in a commit on Tue, 12 Mar 2013: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=a40e565719314287a3c4abcf5909d77bfb19797d Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
