On Apr 11 2007 18:43, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think that's especially true. If a user begins with a single full disk >> for their entire filesystem, uses tar to backup, and then later adds a >> second disk, copies everything from /usr and /home onto partitions there >> (making sure to preserve all interesting bits like ctime/mtime), and >> mounts them over the original directories, tar should not decide that >> every file in /usr and /home was deleted and recreated. > >That wouldn't work, even if you managed to copy ctime, the target >inode number will be different than the original and backup has >to assume it's a different file.
Time for rsync and/or rsync -c. And some target filesystem that is fused to a [can-be-]non-solid archive, like 7z. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/