On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 01:37, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > I use tar with the --newer option to create incremental backups. However, > with tar-1.15.1, which is part of the FC4 distribution, I get an error > messages for each file which is not newer than the specified date -- which > means that I am getting email messages from cron which are multiple > megabytes in length. Does anyone know how to suppress these messages > without sending the entire output to /dev/null? The 'correct' way to do incrementals with gnutar is with the --listed-incremental filename option. If the specified filename doesn't exist, it is created with a list of directories and their associated device and inode numbers and the tar run is a full backup. If it does exist you get an incremental run based on the timestamp of the file, including old directories that have been renamed and their contents, something other methods will miss. The file is updated in place after an incremental run so if you want subsequent incrementals based on the last full you have to save a copy and restore after each incremental. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
