Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> However, this situation appears to cause problems with tar. If I >> understand the situation correctly, then every time the device order >> changes, the next incremental backup ends up containing what amounts >> to a full backup. Is there any way around this? > > Hmm, currently there is not. I plan to make tar snapshots with the > improved incremental backup available in a couple of weeks. I'll let > you know when it is ready. > > In the meantime, I'd suggest you to use --exclude or --exclude-from > options to exclude the devices in question from the backups.
I just thought I might check back about this since I just had another incremental turn in to a full backup simply because I added an auxillary drive to a machine. Is it likely that there's going to be a way to avoid this? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
