Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:04:25 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: incremental tar backups Message-ID: <20040112200425.GB17374@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040112142244.0385b050@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040112142244.0385b050@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:24:36PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 02:00 PM 1/12/2004, DAVID SPEAR you wrote: >>I am running cygwin under Win2K Pro SP4, and am having some trouble creating >>backups with the gnu tar 1.13.25 that came with my distribution. Specifically, >>I can make a full backup (of a directory) using: >> >>cygserver% tar -cf backup.tar -g /cygdrive/d/tmp/dumpdates-backup --ignore- >>failed-read -l -v /cygdrive/d/myfolder > >I assume you missed this in your search for info? > > That should be old news. The current version of tar is supposed to fix the problem. See: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-11/msg00009.html . So, we need the info that is mentioned at: http://cygwin.com/problems.html . -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/