Re: hdup 2.0.1 argggg

Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:52:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[On 17 Nov, @ 15:48, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] hdup 2.0.1 arg ..."]
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:11 +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > [On 16 Nov, @ 20:22, Hdup wrote in "[hdup-user] hdup 2.0.1 argggg ..."]
> > > I will release 2.0.2 tomorrow as a brown paper bag release...
> > 
> > grrummble, Man _does_ gnu tar suck. You cannot feed tar a filelist and
> > expect incremental backups to work. If you feed tar a filelist without
> > directories, it will backup the current working directory.
> 
> Does this mean we should move back to 1.6 for production use, if we want
> to have working incrementals?

unfortunally, yes. I've also removed the hdup2 website (linked it
backup to hdup 1.6)

grtz,
  --Miek

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