Hi folks: I am running cygwin under Win2K Pro SP4, and am having some trouble creating backups with the gnu tar 1.13.25 that came with my distribution. Specifically, I can make a full backup (of a directory) using:
cygserver% tar -cf backup.tar -g /cygdrive/d/tmp/dumpdates-backup --ignore- failed-read -l -v /cygdrive/d/myfolder No problem, creates the list file, etc. However, when I go to do my incrementals using the same command (different target file of course) I get /cygdrive/d/myfolder/subfolder: Directory has been renamed /cygdrive/d/myfolder/subfolder2: Directory has been renamed etc., etc., etc. None of the reported directories have been renamed. So my "incrementals" are huge. Now, at first I thought maybe this was due to whitespaces in the (windows) pathnames, but I have eliminated this possibility with some testing. I have seen (old old old) references to a similar problem having to do with Windows changing the reported inode of files upon reboot but I have not rebooted the machine. All files to be backed up are local. It appears that anything within the C:\\cygwin directory has no problems... maybe just stuff accessed via /cygdrive/"X"??? BTW, I ported my backup scripts from an old WinME box on which they worked perfectly. Any help greatly appreciated. thx dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
