Andrew Henry wrote: > I'm running tar 1.18 on kernel 2.6.22-14 and trying to perform > incremental backups with script below, levels 0, 1 & 2. Every time I > create a level 2 after creating a level 0 it just does a full level 0 > again but the file size is slightly larger than the original level 0. > It's acting really weird. If I perform backup of /home which is 14GB > then it performs full backups even when doing level 2. If I change > *only* the directory in the script to tar /home/andrew/test, and perform > backup level 0 then add files/change files etc, then level 2 works > perfectly. Why is it failing on larger inputs? > Of course, if you spend days trying to figure this out, then give up and send a mail to the list, then *obviously* the answer comes to you two minutes after sending the mail! The reason for this was so silly, i'm embarrassed to mention it... I perform level0 backup to save file to /home, and when i did level2, I still had original tarball from level0 in /home. Doh!!
Second problem is still a problem though. > Second issue is that tar --list archive.tar is not working for me at > all. It just hangs until ctrl-c is pressed. Is it supposed to output > to stdout? > -- GnuPG Key ID: ECB18ABA Fingerprint: FDF3 91FC F5BC 1164 E217 315E 337E 219B ECB1 8ABA
