tar incremental backup with --listed-incremental does not work for me (Linux, Ubuntu)
Solution 1:
Looks like --atime-preserve break incremental backups. :( Try --atime-preserve=system - it's not documented on man page, but works.
Solution 2:
I do tar tar ((GNU tar) 1.23) based incremental backups as well (using cron):
this is the (slightly modified) output of crontab -l
from my setup:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
0 0 * * 1-6 tar czfg /path/to/website/backups/website_inc_`date +\%Y\%m\%d`.tgz /path/to/website/backups/website.info -C /path/to/website/ public_html
0 0 * * 0 tar czfg /path/to/website/backups/website_inc_`date +\%Y\%m\%d`.tgz /path/to/website/backups/website.info --level=0 -C /path/to/website/ public_html
c = create; z = gzip compress; f=file; g=incremental; -C = directory to change to(