Re: [Bug-tar] (forw) tar --listed-incremental bogous?

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Andreas Schuldei <address@hidden> wrote:

> i am having problems with debians gnu tar, not producing
> incremental backups as expected. it seems to create just a file
> with one single current timestamp in the snapshot file, not a
> per-file timestamp with inode information as it sometimes does
> (not sure why or when).

GNU tar produces inode/timestamp entries only for the subdirectories.
Your sample script does not create any, therefore no such entries
are written.
 
> Please tell me how i can make tar produce proper incremental
> backups (which seem to fail for my part because of bogous
> snapshot files).

You are doing everything quite right. The archive produced by your
test script is a normal incremental archive.

Regards,
Sergey