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I think it is looking for modification time of the dir which could be true if any file is added / removed.<br />
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find option given above is good for finding all files modified and then adding to tar.
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I think it is looking for modification time of the dir which could be true if any file is added / removed.

find option given above is good for finding all files modified and then adding to tar.

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hello, each night i am running the command <br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-28364966-1">/bin/tar cfz $TARFILENAME --newer-mtime=\&quot;$yesterday 00:00:01-06:00\&quot; /home</code></pre>
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It is finding and adding all the files modified OK, but also adding every directory. For my system that is over a GIG and yet total modified files are only a couple 100MB<br />
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I looked at the doc and there wasn't anything that jumped out. &nbsp;tar --incremental will not work in my situation<br />
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thanks for any suggestions/help
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hello, each night i am running the command 

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It is finding and adding all the files modified OK, but also adding every directory. For my system that is over a GIG and yet total modified files are only a couple 100MB

I looked at the doc and there wasn't anything that jumped out.  tar --incremental will not work in my situation

thanks for any suggestions/help

tar with --newer-mtime includes all the directories

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