Hi all, I'm using GNU tar for incremental backup using --listed-incremental option. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with restoring such backup if following operations are performed: 1. Rename directory d1 to d3 2. Rename directory d2 to d1 Backup created afterwards contains:
R./d2 T./d1 R./d1 T./d3 R./d2 T./d1 Restoring it fails with: tar: Cannot rename './d2' to './d1': Directory not empty tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Isn't the presence of the first "R./d2 T./d1" a result of a bug? Or maybe I don't understand how to use --listed-incremental option? Below comes a shell script which reproduces this problem. I expect it should restore "test" directory, but instead it fails at the last line with the error above. Thanks for help -- -------------------------------------------------- mkdir test test/d1 test/d2 echo f1 > test/d1/file.txt echo f2 > test/d2/file.txt tar -c -g backup.snar --totals -X exclude.list -C test . > backup0.tar echo f3 > test/d2/file.txt mv test/d1 test/d3 mv test/d2 test/d1 tar -c -g backup.snar --totals -X exclude.list -C test . > backup1.tar rm -rf test mkdir test cd test tar x -g /dev/null < ../backup0.tar tar x -g /dev/null < ../backup1.tar
