I'm trying to use tar to (sort of) make an incremental backup of a directory which contains subdirectories and a couple of other tar archives: tar -cvf incremental.tar --newer-mtime "11 Oct 2007" * This works the way I want it to, but I've noticed that when I later extract the incremental.tar file (which contains other tar archives) then in that process it also extracts the other tar archives it contains. Is there a way of getting tar to NOT extract the member archives? I've read the man pages and googled on this issue but can't get it to work. Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
