Thanks for your reply. I'll have a go. What I want to do is extract backup tar file, while not extracting the member tar files. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: 15 October 2007 15:28 To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: Archive extraction issues See this link (at the bottom). It explains how to do what I believe you are looking for (or at least gets you close). http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/20_08.html -----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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
