[kwlug-disc] GNU tar incremental backup bug?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> You still use dump/restore?  Then, again, I''m still using Slackware (and
> looking).
> I use btrfs's snapshots.  Each snaphot is independent, while keeping only
> one copy.
>

I use dump to an external disk, I keep some level 0 dumps and some
incrementals as well.
That external disk gets rotated offsite, with another disk.
That way, I have disaster fallback.

I know ZFS and btrfs have more features, but this setup has worked for
decades, so no need to change it.
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