Re: [Help-tar] Tar - incremental backups and dumpdir

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Piotr Szl±zak <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> But when I extract my archive I'm getting all files, even those
> deleted.
> 
> #tar -x -z --listed-incremental=/dev/null -f archive.0.tgz
> #tar -x -z --listed-incremental=/dev/null -f archive.n.tgz

Do you mean that you get the files present in archive.0.tgz, but
absent in archive.n.tgz? 
 
> I cannot also list my archive as it is described in manual:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_88.html#DOCF12

This example lacks -f before the archive name. The correct form is:

  tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose -f archive.tar

Regards,
Sergey