- Update design-notes Create: --owner --group - dump file data to a CDB? for incremental backups - Store timestamp of start of backup (in "" record) - Store dev/ino (key) of each listed file and each directory - Listed incremental backup: - Look up last timestamp in CDB - From tar: The file FILE, which is archive independent, contains the date it was last modified and a list of devices, inode numbers and directory names. `tar' will archive files with newer mod dates or inode change times, and directories with an unchanged inode number and device but a changed directory name. Extract: --modification-time --[no-]same-owner --[no-]same-permissions / --preserve-permissions - Validate the SOA parameters. - unhandled file types: b -- block device c -- character device - Incremental restore: - For each directory listed in the archive: - Unlink files in the destination not listed in the directory record - Warn about files not present in the destination