Re: [CentOS] tar with -N option still picking up old files

From: Akemi Yagi

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

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Hello:

I tried this command to tar up a set of data files updated since yesterday (The data directory contains multiple files with varying dates):

/bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data

When I look at the content of the test.tgz file, it looks like it copied the content of the entire directory, not just the newer files.

I am on CentOS 5.

Try --newer-mtime instead of -N. In my case (CentOS-4 backup machine), the -N option did not work as it's supposed to. Not sure about tar on CentOS-5 though.

Forgot to add that I just tested -N, and it works for me (tar 1.15.1)...

JD