Re: incremental tar backups

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:00 PM 1/12/2004, DAVID SPEAR you wrote:
>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.


I assume you missed this in your search for info?

<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01653.html>

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