On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:01, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>Gene,
>
>> I'm noting this in the email reports amanda sends me, where it
>> doesn't make any diff what the runlevel is, its backing up the
>> whole iso image for all levels.
>
>[...]
>
>> coyote  -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso  1    563    563   --   
>> 3:1 3005.2   2:3  3787.3
>
>[...]
>
>Am I interpreting this correctly: you have individual files listed
> in the disklist? If so, I'm not sure how else GNUtar could respond.
>  A level 1 backup of an individual file doesn't make much sense to
> me.
I did that at one point so I could add them one by one without 
spoiling the schedueling that badly, but I see your point and I'll 
reduce it to the directory itself.

>Reading between the lines of the incremental archive format
>description in the GNUtar info pages, it seems to me that the
>incremental options to GNUtar are likely to depend on having a
>directory entry in the tar file.
>
>I would expect that you might see small incrementals if you
> specified the FC3 directory in the disklist rather than the
> individual files themselves.
>
>-Ben

Thanks Ben, one more time the forest got in the way of seeing the 
trees... :-)

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