Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:51:16 -0600 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: backing up files newer than DATE with tar Message-ID: <9601121551.AA01001@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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I've been trying to back up files newer than a certain date with the tar -N (--after, --newer) option. I am running 2.1 and have read the manpages and --help options, but can't find what I'm doing wrong. bash$ ls -l total 10 drwxr-xr-x 2 eghk other 512 Jan 12 10:45 . drwxr-xr-x 31 eghk other 1024 Jan 12 10:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 eghk other 6 Jan 12 10:45 junk1 -rw-r--r-- 1 eghk other 6 Jan 12 10:45 junk2 -rw-r--r-- 1 eghk other 6 Jan 12 10:45 junk3 bash$ date Fri Jan 12 10:46:15 EST 1996 bash$ tar -cvf /dev/null --newer "Jan 12 10:46:15" * junk1 junk2 junk3 bash$ tar -cvf ../junk.tar --newer "Jan 12 10:46:15" * junk1 junk2 junk3 bash$ tar -tvf ../junk.tar -rw-r--r-- eghk/other 6 Jan 12 10:45 1996 junk1 -rw-r--r-- eghk/other 6 Jan 12 10:45 1996 junk2 -rw-r--r-- eghk/other 6 Jan 12 10:45 1996 junk3 bash$ In a similar fashion, I can't get the --listed-incremental option to work either. I know I could use find to generate the list of files, but I'd rather figure out why tar doesn't work for me. Anyone want to tell me what I've done wrong (incorrectly)? Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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