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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:35:21 +0200
From: Ilya Pobelov <pobelov AT mail DOT ru>
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Subject: [bug] tar (1.13.25-3) -g --recursive always archieve files in subdirectories
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Hello!

I am making incremental backup of my data using script, containing 
following line:

tar -g $ARCHNAME.list -X $ARCHNAME.exclude --recursive -c $DIRECTORY | 
bzip2 -9 > $BACKUPDIR/$ARCHNAME-$BACKUPTIME.tar.bz2

to archieve my data. This expected to create incremental archieves, and 
it works well with tar 1.13.25-1 (e.g. only changed files are archivated 
on next run of script). With tar 1.13.25-3 I noticed, that files, 
located in the subdirectories of main data directory ($DIRECTORY) are 
always archivated, even if they weren't changed. I suspect, that this 
situation is a bug.
Now I am using tar 1.13.25-1 to avoid this situation. Unfortunately, I 
have no possibility to test tar 1.13.25 on UNIX-like systems. My system 
information: Windows 98 SE, Current Cygwin (cygwin 1.5.5-1) installation 
except tar. If you need additional information, please ask.
Thank you for your attention, hope that this is information will be useful.


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