Archive extraction issues

[Johan Booysen]

Thanks for your reply.  I'll have a go.

What I want to do is extract backup tar file, while not extracting the
member tar files. 

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matt 
Sent: 15 October 2007 15:28
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Subject: RE: Archive extraction issues

See this link (at the bottom).  It explains how to do what I believe you
are looking for (or at least gets you close).
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/20_08.html


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On Behalf Of Johan Booysen
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:35 AM
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Subject: Archive extraction issues

I'm trying to use tar to (sort of) make an incremental backup of a
directory which contains subdirectories and a couple of other tar
archives:
tar -cvf incremental.tar --newer-mtime "11 Oct 2007" *
 
This works the way I want it to, but I've noticed that when I later
extract the incremental.tar file (which contains other tar archives)
then in that process it also extracts the other tar archives it
contains.
 
Is there a way of getting tar to NOT extract the member archives?  I've
read the man pages and googled on this issue but can't get it to work.
 
Thanks.
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