>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:29:10 -0500, Dan Langille said: > > C M Reinehr wrote: > > 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. > > Thank you for the URL. > > As pointed out in the manpage, this features uses tar extensions which > may not be implemented in other implementations of tar. > > The strategies used by GNU tar may be worth study by anyone implementing > similar features in Bacula.
I think that idea has been rejected already, because the strategies are too specific to unix and do not work on Windows. Also, I'm not sure if GNU tar's implementation of incrementals is working in all cases yet. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
