Re: gnu tar with -g (listed-incremental)

[Jonathan Joseph]

Well,  I don't know what the problem was, but for future searchers, I 
built version 1.14 from the source and that solved the problem.

-Jonathan

Jonathan Joseph wrote:
> I'm trying to use gnu tar with the -g option, but whenever I make a 
> backup, I get these crazy 11-digit numbers that precede each resotred 
> file when I do a restore from the archive.  I don't know if these are 
> timestamps or inode numbers or what, but I can't seem to figure out how 
> not to get them.  They show up when doing a list or a restore of the tar 
> archive.
>
> While googling, I saw one other post about this problem but no resolution.
>
> I am running gnu tar version 1.13 under solaris 8.  I obtained the 
> package pre-built from the solaris package archive at 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> Example:
>
>  > mkdir a b
>  > touch a/a a/b b/a b/b b/c
>
>  > gtar cvfg test.tar test.list a b
> a/
> b/
> a/a
> a/b
> b/a
> b/b
> b/c
>
>  >rm -fR a b
>
>  > gtar xvfg test.tar test.list
> 10157406456/a/
> 10157406456/b/
> 10157406132/a/a
> 10157406132/a/b
> 10157406132/b/a
> 10157406132/b/b
> 10157406132/b/c