On Thursday 24 January 2008 10:58, Dan Langille wrote: > Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:06:19 +0000 (GMT), Alan Brown said: > >> > >> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >>> For example, in the commercial realm, EMC Retrospect will properly > >>> restore incremental backups with deleted files removed. In the open > >>> source realm, Amanda will also properly handle deleted files in > >>> incremental backups. > >> > >> When did Amanda gain that feature? I didn't see it last time I looked... > > > > It is a feature of tar. > > Do you recall what feature or option in tar? I'm asking for hints when > I search the man page. I didn't find 'delete' mentioned specifically.
Dan, I found this documented on the tar website: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC88 "Incremental backup is a special form of GNU tar archive that stores additional metadata so that exact state of the file system can be restored when extracting the archive." The online manual goes into much more detail than the "man" manual page. HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
