Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.14 'backup' and 'restore' scripts

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

address@hidden wrote:

> Do I misunderstand something about incremental backups?

Yes, you do. The function level_log_name(), used by both scripts to
generate listing file names, takes *optional* second argument. If it is
called with a single argument, the value of the global variable
DUMP_LEVEL is used (see backup.sh.in:247)

See accompanying documentation, chapters 'Scripted Backups' and
'Scripted Restoration', for detailed description of both scripts.
An online copy is avaialble at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual.

Regards,
Sergey