Re: gnu tar w/ --listed-incremental --files-from

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello!

> >  - get tar-1.13.25

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:34:16PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> But who is the _current_ maintainer of tar? README and Changelog are years
> old...

Less than two years old.  The maintainer is Paul Eggert <address@hidden>.
See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-01/msg00135.html
to learn about his moods.

> > There is a workaround, though:
> > create a temporary directory, put there hard links to the files you want
> > incrementally backup, and put the name of that directory to the filelist.
> > 
> > This way it should work.
> 
> hmmm, i'm using tar in another program (hdup), to produce backups. I cannot be
> sure that all the files that are being backupped are on the same partition.

Sure, you have to do this separately for each partition.  The easiest method
is probably to do it in each directory separately.

Regards,
        Stepan