Hi, I am using GNU tar as it comes with RedHat9 (1.13.25) I try to backup the homedirectory of several users into a file home.tar using $ tar -uvf /some/path/home.tar ~ Each time I do the backup, ALL of the files are appended to the tar-file instead of just the ones which have changed. I have no explanation for this behavior. Investigating with tar -tv shows the following: --- [root@wsingo backup]# tar -tvf home.tar root/tmp/sendmailanalyse.dump -rw-r--r-- root/root 3106 2003-12-23 12:05:35 \ root/tmp/sendmailanalyse.dump -rw-r--r-- root/root 3106 2003-12-23 12:05:35 \ root/tmp/sendmailanalyse.dump -rw-r--r-- root/root 3106 2003-12-23 12:05:35 \ root/tmp/sendmailanalyse.dump --- So the same file, with the same date and size is several times in the archive. In the above example I did a first tar -u (which created the archive) and then an other two times tar -u . Doing the same tar -u on the same machine with smaller directory-structurs (produced just for testing) gives me exactly what I expected: --- [root@wsingo backup]# tar -tvf test.tar drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-12-28 14:02:48 test/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-12-28 14:02:57 test/sub/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2003-12-28 14:02:57 test/sub/f2 -rw-r--r-- root/root 9 2003-12-28 14:03:48 test/f1 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-12-28 14:15:59 test/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1242 2003-12-28 14:15:59 test/f1 --- In the above example the file f1 is included two times, but with DIFFERENT sizes and dates. This is how it should be. Any ideas? Thanks, Ingo. -- Tel +43-1-5955766 Mobil +43-664-1438418 Web http://ingo.netomania.at/ ------------------------------------------- Ihr und Wir -- Bino na Biso http://ingo.netomania.at/bnb/de/index.html -------------------------------------------- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
