Re: listed-incremental bug

[Paul Eggert]

Milos Prudek <address@hidden> writes:

> --listed-incremental fails to backup only changed files. Instead it
> backs up 90% of full backup, although literally no file have changed.

If a directory changes, in general it needs to back up all the
underlying files, since it doesn't know whether they're just been
moved into the directory.

> Is there a limitation in tar, such as number of files for
> --listed-incremental?

There shouldn't be.  Could be bugs, though.