> -----Original Message----- > From: MrC > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:13 PM > Cc: 'Sergey Poznyakoff'; 'Dat Head' > Subject: RE: [Bug-tar] gtar --listed-incremental silently > failing again > > > > -----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 >
Sorry, don't mean to be a pest. Any help or progress on this issue with listed-incremental ? Thanks, MrC
