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I use tar --listed-incremental=... to perform incremental backups on my computer, and for the most part it works like a charm. However, it doesn't seem to play well with my old FAT partition. It thinks that all the files have changed and backs up everything. I read somewhere that tar incremental backups rely on inodes, and that's why it doesn't work well with FAT. Is there a way to fake it, or force it to just use name and modification date instead of inode?

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  • Is there a reason someone voted to close this question? Please leave a comment when you do so. – Adam Crume Aug 08 '10 at 00:42
  • Never mind. I decided to buckle down and convert the file system to ext4. FAT was causing nothing but problems. – Adam Crume Aug 08 '10 at 17:23
  • I have the same problem :-( So far I bypass it with option `--newer, --after-date DATE-OR-FILE` which is not a perfect solution. – sumid Aug 29 '11 at 01:33
  • Possible duplicate of [Tar and --newer / --after-date parameter](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18108230/tar-and-newer-after-date-parameter) – Paul Sweatte Jan 21 '17 at 01:09

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