[Dump-users] removing directories in incremental backups

[Hendrik H. <ho...@li...>]

Hi,

I've got a question about removing directories between incremental
backups. Here is a minimal example to explain what I see:

## /tmp/testing is a fresh ext3 or ext4 file system
mkdir /tmp/testing/foobar
dump -u -f /tmp/level0.dump /tmp/testing/
rmdir /tmp/testing/foobar
dump -1 -u -f /tmp/level1.dump /tmp/testing/
restore -rf /tmp/level0.dump 
restore -rf /tmp/level1.dump 

The second restore fails with "deleteino: out of range 0" and asks me if
I want to abort. If I say no, I'm asked again, and after saying "n"
again restore starts using 100% CPU forever. If I abort, the foobar
directory is gone, but I have a directory called something like
RSTTMP01977.

My system is Linux x86_64 and I'm using dump-0.4b44.

Am I doing anything wrong here or is this indeed a bug?

Cheers,

    Hendrik

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