Here is what I am trying: cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar And here's the error: tar: Pictures: Cannot open: Is a directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I guess the other will work just as well, but it still seems a waste of processor time. Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:43 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Try it without using compressed files. Some tar functions don't work with compression. You can always compress and uncompress separately from adding files.
Okay, here's what I finally came up with
cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar
Seems to work, but I can't get the incremental backup feature. Any suggestions?
tar tzf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures.gz should show all of the versions of the files in the original backup. The "u" option will not add additional files that do not exist in the original tar file.
I have not used the "G" option to tar for incremental backups so I cannot offer help for that.
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