Re: Incremental backup?

Robert Locke wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have problems with incremental backup
> and I have not been using tar this way before.
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> According to "man tar" "--listed-incremental" should be=20
> "--listed-incremental=3D",
> but I down know if that is my problem.
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> First I run monthly, which creates a complete backup.
> but than weekly, and daily also creates the same size of backup.
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> Is it some configuration, or command option issue?

I had the same issue, yesterday. Never had such problems with hdup before=
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I got same size on weekly and daily as the monthly had. For me it was=20
solved when testing
with another newer tar.
I took tar from debian sarge (testing) tar 1.13.93 and then everything=20
worked flawless.
The platform with trouble was CentOS 3.4 (Clone of RHEL3 update4),=20
redhat uses tar version 1.13.25. Maybe something in hdup doesnt work=20
with tar 1.3.25 anymore ?

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> /bin/tar: Tar bort inledande "/" fr=E5n namnen i arkivet
> /usr/local/sbin/hdup: Removing LOCK.
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> Hdup version.:  2.0.7
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> Host.........:  bu-home
> Date.........:  2005-05-24
> Scheme.......:  monthly
> Archive......:  bu-home.2005-05-24.monthly.tar.bz2
> Encryption...:  no
> Chunks.......:  5
> Chunk size...:  700m
> Elapsed......:  1:16:58
> Status.......:  successfully performed backup
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> linux:/home/robert #
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> Best regards,
> Robert
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