Re: Perfomance problem backupscript (more details and tests)

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:05:53PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> How do you mean that?  GNU tar does it about the only way possible that
> permits backing up arbitrary directories where the recursion crosses
> mount points and that allows multiple backup sets, each with their
> own concept of when the prior run was done and, of course, catching
> old files that are now under renamed directories compared to a prior
> run.  It works with amanda and does what I like (the backup is correct),
> and it seems there is no other choice.

> This is with gnutar 1.13.25.

I just reported a bug in incremental restore in 1.15.1.  I would suggest
that you upgrade to 1.15.1 if you want to trust gnu tar with incrementals.
The restore problem I found manifests itself by leaving certain files
around after the restore (it fails to delete symlinks that don't point to a
real file).

Dave