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@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the mechanism
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for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
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This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
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-must reside in /etc). The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
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+normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is
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+in the GNU cpio distribution.
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See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
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See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version
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@@ -26,11 +27,10 @@ problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
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If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
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scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most
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-importantly, do not use +incremental (-G) or +after-date (-N) or
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-+newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works
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-correctly for this purpose is +listed-incremental. (When extracting
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-incremental dumps, use +incremental (-G).)
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+importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or
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+--newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works
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+correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental. (When extracting
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+incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).)
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There is no tar manual in this release. The old manual has too many
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problems to make it usable. A new manual will appear in version 1.12.
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François Pinard