[X4U] Re: Using gnutar in Tiger.

Robert Nicholson robert at elastica.com
Fri Mar 3 20:08:19 PST 2006


I also looked at the darwin sources to tar and saw that it supports a  
filename as in

/usr/bin/gnutar -W -v -p -X /usr/local/bruconfig/gnuxpat -N /var/ 
backup/BACKUP-0 -cf /Volumes/External/BRUBackups/annie/ 
backup-20060304-3.tar /

but this also results in a full backup. ie. it's not considering only  
those files that are more recent than the mtime of BACKUP-0

On Mar 4, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> It's actually using the following.
>
>>
>> /usr/bin/gnutar -W -v -p -X /usr/local/bruconfig/gnuxpat -N  
>> 20060303 -cf /Volumes/External/BRUBackups/annie/ 
>> backup-20060304-3.tar /
>>
>> What's happening at the moment is that the above line is actually  
>> doing a full backup. ie. it's not considering the dates at all.
>


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