Your message dated Sat, 28 Jul 2018 01:57:54 -0600 (MDT) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line unable to reproduce with more recent tar has caused the Debian Bug report #659046, regarding tar: incremental backups broken to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tar Version: 1.26-4 Severity: important Hi, backup-manager doesn't work anymore for me, because tar fails when doing incremental backups. When launching manually the same command as backup-manager: [root@awak:~]$ LANG=C /bin/tar --listed-incremental /mnt/backup/awak-home.incremental.bin --one-file-system -p -c -z -f /mnt/backup/awak-home.20120207.tar.gz "/home" /bin/tar: Unexpected field value in snapshot file /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The snapshot file has been created by tar previously. Help ! Thanks, Xav -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.13-24 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.6-1 high-quality block-sorting file co pn ncompress <none> (no description available) ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---I'm unable to reproduce this problem with the current version of tar in Debian. Since upstream has made a number of changes/fixed to the code for incremental backups since this bug was filed, I can only assume something got fixed. If this problem still seems to exist, please feel free to let me know and provide a recipe for reproducing the failure. Regards, Bdale
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