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Re: tar incremental backup issue
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:36:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: tar incremental backup issue
- References: <20040722143029.88743.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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