Re: [Bug-tar] tar doesn't honor --exclude-caches with --listed-incremental

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dan H. <address@hidden> wrote:

> Is this a bug or some feature that I can't find in the docs?

Yes, kind of. Currently incremental backups only handle --exclude and
--exclude-from options.

> Apart from that I'm with the crowd that thinks that the CACHEDIR.TAG
> file itself should be restored when a backup tarball is extracted.

OK, then try this version:

  ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/alpha/tar/tar-1.16.2-20070123.tar.bz2

Regards,
Sergey