Hello,

I've created a backup set with one full and some incr. backups with tar --listed-incremental

Now I like to get a filellist of all files that would exist if I restore the backupset up to one point (lets set up to incr. backup 5 out of 7)

I tried

cat backup.full.tgz | gunzip - - | tar --listed-incremental -tv
cat backup.inc1.tgz | gunzip - - | tar --listed-incremental -tv
...
cat backup.inc5.tgz | gunzip - - | tar --listed-incremental -tv

and see that I get the dirnames and a list of files that would be in the dirs with some special char as a seperate char. This char looks like (^@) and is Hexdump 0a00 ?

What char is this to use the split function in perl (like my @files = split(/\t/,$_) )?

Is their any better way to solve my problem?

Thanks,

Alexander Newald