Perhaps you can either: 1) Use the exclude parameter to avoid collecting the tar's in the directories 2) Define in your extract to suppress the extraction of located tar's within that extract. Check out all of the parameter options. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:35 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Archive extraction issues 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?subject=subscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.10/1070 - Release Date: 10/14/2007 9:22 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.10/1070 - Release Date: 10/14/2007 9:22 AM -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
