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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:47:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Song <qiufeng_song@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: tar incremental backup issue
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--- Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Alex Song wrote:
> >I'm relying on incremental feature of tar for my backup need. After
> >doing a lot of backups, I suddenly found an issue with this feature.
> >
> >It seems if you move a file with an earlier date to the directory,
> the
> >incremental backuped archive of this directory does NOT have this
> file!
> 
> That certainly sounds like a generic issue with tar itself.  In that
> case,
> it's a topic for another mailing list:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
> 

But I don't have this problem on Linux (Fedora Core 1) with the same
script.

Alex


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