Gareth Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have a directory I want to backup at /usr/dir_a/dir_b.
I want to back the content of this dir to /usr/backups/dir_b
so I tried the following:
Lowell Gilbert clarified:
[This essentially adds up to doing
# tar -cf foo.tar $target_path
and then immediately
# tar -uvf foo.tar $target_path
shows an update.]
Hrrmph. Looks like the pathname rewrite (stripping leading '/')
is getting done too late, so that the wrong filenames are
being compared.
Please check that the following does work (without the leading '/'):
tar -cf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b
tar -uvf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b
Assuming that works correctly, I know where the mistake is;
I'll have a tentative patch for you to try in a couple of hours.
Tim Kientzle
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