From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 11:14:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23332 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from revelstone.jvm.com (revelstone.jvm.com [207.98.213.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23281 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fbsdlist@localhost) by revelstone.jvm.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA12471; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:14:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:14:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Noisy tar Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We're trying to use tar to get incremental backups, i.e. files modified in the last 24 hours. The problem is that when we use the -N option, tar insists on reporting each file that has *not* been changed. This seems a bit bizzare, I don't care about the 30,000 files that haven't changed, I'd like to hear about the 100 that have and that it added to the tarfile. If I can't have that, i'd be happy if it would just shut up. Anyone know how? Yes, I could send it all to /dev/null, but I'm afraid I'd also flush any real error messages. Cliff