Helmut Waitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The intended usage of a full archive followed by a series of > incremental archives is to restore a previous state of a file > hierarchy, no matter what its current state is, not to manipulate an > arbitrary file hierarchy in a manner similar to the manipulations > that could be done in order to restore that file hierarchy on which > the archive had been created.
Thanks for the clear explanation. Perhaps something like this could be put into the manual? The subject does come up every so often... _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
