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

[Andreas Schuldei]

* Sergey Poznyakoff (address@hidden) [040216 12:38]:
> 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.

then tar is broken in some othe way. as my modified demo script
shows, it does not honor the snapshot file and does a full backup
again, including all files in the backup. it should have scipped
file1 in the second backup.

tar-demo.sh
Description: Bourne shell script