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tar-1.13 is broken: Cannot exclude from backup
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Keith Smith |
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tar-1.13 is broken: Cannot exclude from backup |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Dec 2001 08:57:57 -0700 |
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The following shell sequence demonstrates tar-1.13's inability to
exclude files listed in a backup file. See below the first example for
what I believe to be the correct behavior in the older 1.12 tar.
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address@hidden /tmp<479>tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13
Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
address@hidden /tmp<480>cat noback
/tmp/backmeup/dontbackup
tmp/backmeup/dontbackup
./tmp/backmeup/dontbackup
address@hidden /tmp<481>tar --create --verbose --exclude-from /tmp/noback
--file backmeup.tar /tmp/backmeup
tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
tmp/backmeup/
tmp/backmeup/fakefile
tmp/backmeup/backupthis/
tmp/backmeup/backupthis/fakefile2
tmp/backmeup/dontbackup/
tmp/backmeup/dontbackup/foo
address@hidden /tmp<482>tar tvf backmeup.tar
drwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-12-04 08:36 tmp/backmeup/
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 20 2001-12-04 08:36 tmp/backmeup/fakefile
drwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-12-04 08:36 tmp/backmeup/backupthis/
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 18 2001-12-04 08:36
tmp/backmeup/backupthis/fakefile2
drwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-12-04 08:35 tmp/backmeup/dontbackup/
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 34 2001-12-04 08:35 tmp/backmeup/dontbackup/foo
------------------------------------------------------------------------
address@hidden /tmp<487>tar-1.12 --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12
Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
address@hidden /tmp<488>cat noback
/tmp/backmeup/dontbackup
tmp/backmeup/dontbackup
./tmp/backmeup/dontbackup
address@hidden /tmp<489>tar-1.12 --create --verbose --exclude-from
/tmp/noback --file backmeup.tar /tmp/backmeup
tar-1.12: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
tmp/backmeup/
tmp/backmeup/fakefile
tmp/backmeup/backupthis/
tmp/backmeup/backupthis/fakefile2
address@hidden /tmp<490>tar tvf backmeup.tar
drwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-12-04 08:36 tmp/backmeup/
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 20 2001-12-04 08:36 tmp/backmeup/fakefile
drwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-12-04 08:36 tmp/backmeup/backupthis/
-rw-rw-rw- root/root 18 2001-12-04 08:36
tmp/backmeup/backupthis/fakefile2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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