Re: [Bug-tar] Listed incremental fails with new symbolic link

[Joerg Schilling]

Peter Kronheimer <address@hidden> wrote:

> If an existing non-empty directory is deleted and then replaced by a 
> symbolic link (with the same name) pointing to a new target, then the 
> listed-incremental mechanism fails, at least with version 1.15.1.

GNU tar did never handle this before......

I noticed and reported this 2 years ago when I finished implementing
incremental restores for star.


If you like, check incremental backup/restore with star

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

it works using a similar algorithm as ufsdump/ufsrestore does
and has ben intensively tested wich all possible changs that may happen
on a filesystem.

Jörg

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