Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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.
>Perhaps something like this could be put into the manual? The subject >does come up every so often... I agree. Perhaps it could be put in the section about the "--incremental" and "--listed-incremental" options. -- Wenn Sie mir E-Mail schreiben, stellen | When writing me e-mail, please Sie bitte vor meine E-Mail-Adresse | precede my e-mail address with meinen Vor- und Nachnamen, etwa so: | my full name, like Helmut Waitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, (Helmut Waitzmann) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
