Amanda-Users

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-26 22:14:02
Subject: Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: "John Hein" <jhein AT timing DOT com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:14:37 -0500
Just a guess -- is this a Linux machine that recently had hardware
added/removed?

If so, the device numbers may have changed for that partition, leading
tar to think that all files have been changed.  Gene Heskett chased
down such a bug several months ago.

Other than that, I can't see how this would happen.

Dustin

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