tar 1.11.1 --listed-incremental with --atime-preserve

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 09:39

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   Do these two options really work together?  Are you really getting
   incremental backups when you use the scripts you provide?  I had to
   take out --atime- preserve to make the scripts work incrementally
   on a NeXT.  Otherwise, level-1 seemed to dump everything accessed
   since the level-0, which of course includes everything on the
   level-0 dump.

That is correct.  There is a lossage, which is unavoidable, sort of.
The work around is for --atime-preserve to read the disk device
directly.  That will be done in 1.12.  Until then, remove
--atime-preserve from the backup scripts.

	-mib

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