Re: Extracting a single directory from a partial incremental dump?

"Felix E. Klee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> At Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:52:11 +0200,
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Did you really follow my advise and use a _new_ archive created with a
> > _recent_ star, when dong untar tests?
>
> Yes, my script creates and extracts the archive, of course with the same
> version of star: 1.5a67.

OK

> > Anyway, if you believe that you have a small test case that creates a
> > small tar archive, I would like to look at that archive. I see no
> > other way to proceed, unless you like to debug the problem
> > yourself....
>
> Uhm, doesn't the script that I provided in my previous email match your
> definition of a small test case?  If you don't have "bash" installed, I
> can of course provide a version ported to a different type of shell,
> just tell me which one you like.

Star has already been tested with much more complex cases hundreds of
times. Anyway, under no circumstances, your problems may occur in case of 
restoring a level 0 dump.

As I have no problems, I cannot reproduce your problem and for the same reason
I need to get access to your archive in order to understand your problems.

Jörg

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