Re: Re: Incremental backup?

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[On 25 May, @00:01, Peter Skogstr=F6m wrote in "[hdup-user] Re: Incremental=
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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.
> >
> >Is it some configuration, or command option issue?
>=20
> I had the same issue, yesterday. Never had such problems with hdup before.
> 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 ?

Also see:=20
http://www.miek.nl/projects/hdup2/faq/index.html#need

But I never had any real, hard confirmation that 1.3.25 was too old.
But I think it's safe to say: tar 1.3.25 is TOO old for hdup2.X

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