Hi David,
> During incremental restore, before removing entities that have gone
> away, tar performs a 'stat' call. However, this stat call is
> dereferencing. If the previously existing entity is a symlink that
> does not resolve correctly, this causes tar to print a warning, and
> not remove the entity.
That sounds like a problem recently reported.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-08/msg00023.html
Cheers,
Ralph.
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