Good find John. I've moved to backupninja for simple backup scripts on newer machines, but still very happy with flexbackup for many tasks. Looks like switching backup $type from tar to 'afio' would be a good simple step until the tar issue gets sorted out.
On 1 December 2016 at 15:25, John R. Graham <john_r_gra...@mindspring.com> wrote: > This appears to be related to a new tar release. There's a provisional > patch being discussed on the Gentoo Forums here. > <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1054416-highlight-flexbackup.html> > > - John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephan Cilliers > Sent: Dec 1, 2016 6:52 AM > To: flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [flexbackup-help] FW: FLEXBACKUP ON UBUNTU 16.04 NOT WORKING > > Dear FlexBackup > > > > I have been using FlexBackup successfully for the past 8 years on Ubuntu > 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04 TLS. > > > > I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 TLS and noticed a strange > phenomena. > > > > When I extract the zipped file, duplicate files are reported in the > destination folder. > > > > I have attached the following files included in the WinRAR zipped file > > > > 1. Flexbackup.conf > > 2. The original /test folder I backed up > > 3. The backup file: test.0.201611241425.tar.gz > > 4. A screen capture of the terminal window of the backup process > (text file): TEST FLEXBAKUP SCREEN REPORT > > 5. The extracted folder: test.0.201611241425 > > > > > > When I extracted the backup file I choose an option to rename duplicate > files. > > In the original folder, there is only one file (eg. Level 6). The file in > the extracted folder level6(5) is therefore the 5th copy of the file. > > I noticed that as I drilled deeper into the directories, that the number > of copies increases. Meening that in > > level 2 there are now 3 copies of the file > > level 3 there are now 4 copies of the file > > level 4 there are now 5 copies of the file and so on. > > > > After I noticed this problem, I did a fresh install of UBUNTU 16.04 TLS on > a different machine and got the same results. > > > > On UBUNTU 14.04 LTS it still works perfectly. > > > > Would you kindly investigate this matter and let me know. > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > > > > > *Stephan Cilliers * > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > flexbackup-help mailing list > flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help > >
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