This is for restoring from previous backups. A true backup is a snapshot of the file system at the time of backup. If your server crashes and you in the middle of your backup cycle (e.g. Full backups early Monday morning, incremental the rest of the mornings), say on Wednesday afternoon the system crashes, you have Full:Monday, Inc:Tuesday,Wendesday. To re-create Wednesday you need start with Monday and do a listed-incremental restore from each file... If a file or directory were deleted on Tuesday afternoon, it would exist in the full: Monday, inc:Tuesday, but not in the Wednesday incremental and should be removed.
Now, if you want to just untar with out having directories removed -- don't use the --listed-incremental option! The file deleted on Tuesday will not be removed with the Wednesday morning restore. This is helpful when a user deletes a file accidentally and only a partial restore is needed. -- John Thomas McDole -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R. Vanderpool Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug-tar] restoring from incremental question i read in some older tar-bug messages about restoring from --listed-incremental archives that it would then delete files that were not in that arhive!? (to make it match the state of the archive at that point) i hope this code was yanked or never put in (and if it is in, what version(s) is it in?) because that behavior would mess us up really bad. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
