Hi, I'm relying on incremental feature of tar for my backup need. After doing a lot of backups, I suddenly found an issue with this feature.
It seems if you move a file with an earlier date to the directory, the incremental backuped archive of this directory does NOT have this file! I'm using following script to test this, #! /bin/sh rm -fr test restore 1 2 snapshot date > date.txt sleep 90 #make an older file mkdir test mkdir test/1 mkdir test/2 echo 1 > test/1/1 echo 2 > test/2/2 #first backup tar -cf test.tar --listed-incremental=snapshot test mkdir 1 mv test.tar 1 #second backup mv date.txt test/1 tar -cf test.tar --listed-incremental=snapshot test mkdir 2 mv test.tar 2 #restore mkdir restore cd restore tar -xf ../1/test.tar --listed-incremental=../snapshot tar -xf ../2/test.tar --listed-incremental=../snapshot diff -r test ../test #end The output is Only in ../test/1: date.txt Or did I do something wrong? I really appreciate your reply. Alex ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/