Here is what I am trying: cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar
And here's the error: tar: Pictures: Cannot open: Is a directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I guess the other will work just as well, but it still seems a waste of processor time. Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:43 -0700, John Meyer wrote: >> James Knott wrote: >>> Try it without using compressed files. Some tar functions don't work >>> with compression. You can always compress and uncompress separately from >>> adding files. >> >> >> Okay, here's what I finally came up with >> >> cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures >> gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar >> >> Seems to work, but I can't get the incremental backup feature. Any >> suggestions? > > tar tzf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures.gz should show all of the > versions of the files in the original backup. The "u" option will not > add additional files that do not exist in the original tar file. > > I have not used the "G" option to tar for incremental backups so I > cannot offer help for that. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
