Re: If most recent backup is not level 0, recovery fails to bring back a

Subject:	Re: If most recent backup is not level 0, recovery fails to bring back all files when directories have been renamed
From:	Ian Turner <ian AT zmanda DOT com>
To:	Dave Ewart <davee AT ceu.ox.ac DOT uk>
Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:42:56 -0500

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 06:34, Dave Ewart wrote:
> In summary: when a directory is *renamed* the files underneath it are
> not considered to have changed

Usually, I would say that this is a limitation of the UNIX filesystem. A 
directory's modification time can change anytime you add or remove a file in 
that directory. Obviously it doesn't make sense to re-backup every file in a 
hierarchy just because you created or removed one.

However, in this case you are using gnutar, which creates listed incrementals 
(I assume you did not configure --without-gnutar-listdir) that can be used to 
detect the renaming of a directory. Therefore I have forwarded your complaint 
to the GNU tar folks.

Cheers,

--Ian
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