Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I checklevel 1 sizes?)

[Chris Karakas]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> I don't know how different it would be, but, if you eventually find
> out it's too much, tell Amanda to use a wrapper script instead of GNU
> tar in which you check whether the directory being backed up is in a
> vfat filesystem, then replace the `--listed-incremental <filename>'
> arguments with `--incremental'.  However, you'll still be missing the
> `--newer' flag, that is passed when GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR is
> used.  You may have to work around this problem by reading/storing
> timestamps in the `<filename>' argument.
> 

Thank you, I will have to try all this out. 

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Chris Karakas
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