Hi, On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:31, Paul Raines wrote: > I take it with incremental dumps being recovered, files deleted on > the original are not deleted by the restore process on the target? They are. > I.E. there is no equivalent to rsync's --delete option? Restore keeps a running tally of each inode it has taken care of after each pass of an incremental restore. If it sees inodes from a previous pass which are removed from the record in a new pass, it deletes them. If it sees inodes from a previous pass which have a new name or names in the new pass, it renames or hard-links them as required. And it is guaranteed to see all such cases because any deletes/renames change the mtime on the directory or directories that contain the inode, and all such modified directories get included in the incremental dumps. > I have discovered for tar, its -g increment option does keep track > of deletions. Last time I looked, -g was buggy. It tracked changed directories, but didn't correctly deal with directory renames --- any subdirs under the renamed directory would not be marked as dirty and would not be backed up, resulting in lost data after a restore. It has been a number of years since I tried using it, though. --Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
