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Hi Deklan,
what happen if the extract is executed without --listed-incremental or
--incremental options?

Does the issue still happen?

Thanks,
Fausto

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Dieterly, Deklan <deklan.dieterly at hpe.com>
wrote:

> When using incremental backups, tar will not handle removing a dir and
> then renaming another dir to the removed dir.
>
>
> dek at dek-HP-Z620-Workstation:~/backup-test$ tar --extract
> --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.2.tar
> tar: Cannot rename Œbackup/dir1¹ to Œbackup/dir2¹: Directory not empty
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
>
>
> Here are the steps to reproduce.
>
>  1845  mkdir backup
>  1846  mkdir backup/dir1
>  1847  mkdir backup/dir2
>  1848  echo "aa" > backup/dir1/dir1-file1
>  1849  echo "aa" > backup/dir2/dir2-file1
>  1852  tar --create --file=backup.tar --listed-incremental=./listed-incr
> backup
>  1854  rm -rf backup/dir2
>  1855  mv backup/dir1 backup/dir2
>  1856  tar --create --file=backup.2.tar --listed-incremental=./listed-incr
> backup
>  1859  tar --extract --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.tar
>  1861  tar --extract --listed-incrementa=/dev/null --file backup.2.tar
>
>
> This seems to be a well known, long-standing issue with tar.
> --
> Deklan Dieterly
>
> Senior Systems Software Engineer
> HPE
>
>
>
>
> On 5/13/16, 4:33 PM, "Fox, Kevin M" <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:
>
> >Whats the issue?
> >________________________________________
> >From: Dieterly, Deklan [deklan.dieterly at hpe.com]
> >Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 3:07 PM
> >To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> >Subject: [openstack-dev] [Freezer] Replace Gnu Tar with DAR
> >
> >Does anybody see any issues if Freezer used DAR instead of Gnu Tar? DAR
> >seems to handle a particular use case that Freezer has while Gnu Tar does
> >not.
> >--
> >Deklan Dieterly
> >
> >Senior Systems Software Engineer
> >HPE
> >
> >
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