Dan H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this a bug or some feature that I can't find in the docs?
Yes, kind of. Currently incremental backups only handle --exclude and --exclude-from options. > Apart from that I'm with the crowd that thinks that the CACHEDIR.TAG > file itself should be restored when a backup tarball is extracted. OK, then try this version: ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/alpha/tar/tar-1.16.2-20070123.tar.bz2 Regards, Sergey
