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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040112161737.03858c70@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:19:47 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: incremental tar backups In-Reply-To: <20040112200425.GB17374@redhat.com> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040112142244.0385b050@127.0.0.1> <20040112200425.GB17374@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:04 PM 1/12/2004, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >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 . Good point. I didn't chase the thread far enough (it's not my greatest skill anyway ;-) ). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/