On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Roberto is asking for something different. > > Say you have a directory with files a, b, c. You do a tarsnap backup. Now > delete files a, b, c and create files x, y, z. > > Do a restore in that same directory. You end up with a directory with a, b, > c, x, y, z. I believe Roberto wants the resulting directory to have just a, > b, c.
You are completely mistaken. If on day 0, /tmp/test contains x, y, and z, and you do a backup root@pvpn-sf:...tmp/test # ls x y z tarsnap -c -f test0 /tmp/test and on day two, the contents of /tmp/test is root@pvpn-sf:...tmp/test # ls a b c x y z and you do a backup tarsnap -c -f test1 /tmp/test and on the next day the dir looks like this: root@pvpn-sf:...tmp/test # ls a b c and you perform a backup tarsnap -c -f test2 /tmp/test and if you restore from test2, you get only a b and c. This is a simple fact you could verify for yourself. - M
