> -----Original Message----- > From: Sergey Poznyakoff > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:37 AM > To: Dat Head > Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] gtar --listed-incremental silently > failing again > > Dat Head ha escrit: > > > /usr/local/bin/gtar --version > > tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92 > > MrC ha escrit: > > > I'm seeing an issue with tar 1.16 (plus patch indicated below) where > > Please try the CVS version, or at least the latest stable, > which is 1.16.1. There were several incremental-related > fixes recently. > > Regards, > Sergey
Thanks for the response Sergey. Unfortunately, today's CVS does not resolve the problem. Incremental is still randomly either performing essentially a full archive, or nothing at all. I can't determine what triggers the randomness, but it seems to be related to prior incremental runs, which store their archives in peer subdirectories (eg. dir/backupA, dir/backupB, ... dir/backupC). If I do an incremental backup on only dir/backupC repeatedly, incremental seems to work. If I run all backups, dir/backupC will then perform a full backup, despite previously having just completed many individual incremental backups for dir/backupC. Any other ideas for debugging ? MrC
