i thought this bug was squashed in tar-1.15.92 (-20060707), we had the problem before that and special patches were put into that version that made the issue go away at that time; however, as time has one on and more files have been added to filesystem the bug is again back and *silently* it just does not back up *any* files in that file system.
the original bug (and i'm sure this one) is due to the number of files (see below, about 8.5 million inodes now) and something wrong with --listed-incremental processing (because it does not happen w/o that flag, but we need it). it has to do with more than just the number of files though as we found before that changing the placement of where in the order of fs's would sometimes make it work (or not), if we just backup this problem one and two others it works ok, but somehow the below combination does not /usr/local/bin/gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92 executing "/usr/local/bin/gtar -c -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/sdlt27nr -b 256 -v - -one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --listed-incremental /usr/local/adm/etc/bck incremental.xray ./ /home /usr/local /usr/LOCAL /ftp /vol1 /tools /ftp/data/2 " Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9898580 4228320 5167428 46% / /dev/sda2 9898612 1512032 7883748 17% /home /dev/sdc1 9400448 6558612 2364308 74% /usr/local /dev/sda5 4040000 169556 3665216 5% /usr/LOCAL /dev/sdc2 19243772 1873880 16392340 11% /ftp /dev/sdb2 10301792 5590436 4711356 55% /vol1 /dev/sdc3 28170276 5099804 21639484 20% /tools /dev/sdc4 231548312 20971700 198814624 10% /ftp/data/2 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1259104 102907 1156197 9% / /dev/sda2 1259104 12894 1246210 2% /home /dev/sdc1 1196032 53668 1142364 5% /usr/local /dev/sda5 514048 2711 511337 1% /usr/LOCAL /dev/sdc2 2448000 93584 2354416 4% /ftp /dev/sdb2 1310720 272486 1038234 21% /vol1 /dev/sdc3 3581088 18604 3562484 1% /tools /dev/sdc4 29409280 8786224 20623056 30% /ftp/data/2 it sees that it is new (previous listed incremental file removed before this run to kick in a full backup), and sticks on mount point but that is it: /usr/local/bin/gtar: /ftp/data/2: Directory is new /ftp/data/2/
