Hi,
We've been using tar for several years to make a full backup on Monday and an incremental one on the other days.
Last week we moved from Ubuntu 10.04 to Xubuntu 12.04 and we are using the same tar script.
On Monday 2nd July it did the full backup making the snapshot like usual.
On Tuesday 3rd July it looked like it had done a full backup again. Looking in the log file it produces I saw:
tar: /home: Directory has been renamed
I know /home has not been renamed.
On Wednesday and Thursday it did an incremental backup with only the changed files.
On Friday 6th July once more the log file said:
tar: /home: Directory has been renamed
I've run stat on /home:
Code:
File: `/home'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 17301505 Links: 21
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2012-07-07 23:00:01.850233832 +0100
Modify: 2012-05-31 15:55:18.000000000 +0100
Change: 2012-06-28 12:04:34.117972675 +0100
Birth: -
If the directory had been renamed then the modify date or change date should be in July.
Going through the output logs I also found a lot of these for lots of directories that I know have not been renamed:
Code:
Verify /home/fred/.barry
tar: /home/fred/.barry/: Cannot savedir: Not a directory
tar: /home/fred/.barry: Directory has been renamed
Any help would be great.
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