Hi Deklan, what happen if the extract is executed without --listed-incremental or --incremental options?
Does the issue still happen? Thanks, Fausto On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Dieterly, Deklan <deklan.diete...@hpe.com> wrote: > When using incremental backups, tar will not handle removing a dir and > then renaming another dir to the removed dir. > > > dek@dek-HP-Z620-Workstation:~/backup-test$ tar --extract > --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.2.tar > tar: Cannot rename Œbackup/dir1¹ to Œbackup/dir2¹: Directory not empty > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > > > Here are the steps to reproduce. > > 1845 mkdir backup > 1846 mkdir backup/dir1 > 1847 mkdir backup/dir2 > 1848 echo "aa" > backup/dir1/dir1-file1 > 1849 echo "aa" > backup/dir2/dir2-file1 > 1852 tar --create --file=backup.tar --listed-incremental=./listed-incr > backup > 1854 rm -rf backup/dir2 > 1855 mv backup/dir1 backup/dir2 > 1856 tar --create --file=backup.2.tar --listed-incremental=./listed-incr > backup > 1859 tar --extract --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.tar > 1861 tar --extract --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.2.tar > > > This seems to be a well known, long-standing issue with tar. > -- > Deklan Dieterly > > Senior Systems Software Engineer > HPE > > > > > On 5/13/16, 4:33 PM, "Fox, Kevin M" <kevin....@pnnl.gov> wrote: > > >Whats the issue? > >________________________________________ > >From: Dieterly, Deklan [deklan.diete...@hpe.com] > >Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 3:07 PM > >To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > >Subject: [openstack-dev] [Freezer] Replace Gnu Tar with DAR > > > >Does anybody see any issues if Freezer used DAR instead of Gnu Tar? DAR > >seems to handle a particular use case that Freezer has while Gnu Tar does > >not. > >-- > >Deklan Dieterly > > > >Senior Systems Software Engineer > >HPE > > > > > >__________________________________________________________________________ > >OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > >Unsubscribe: > openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > >__________________________________________________________________________ > >OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > >Unsubscribe: > openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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