I'm using tar for my incremental backup script on Oracle VM Server 3.2.2 and it comes with tar 1.15.1I need this command:tar -cf drive-C.full.tar --no-check-device \    --listed-incremental=drive-C.full.snapshot drive-C/But I get this error:tar: unrecognized option `--no-check-device'Edit...I'm doing incremental backups on VMs disks. I need the no-check-device because every time the vm disk .img file is mounted, the device numbers change and that messes up with tar's incremental backups.Continues on:How to do incremental backup of .img files containing windows partition?
Where can I find updated TAR.rpm for Oracle VM Server?
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Oracle Linux, which is the base of Oracle VM is based on RHEL 5.Another clone is CentOS 5. Current version: 5.8.But: current tar-Version there is 1.15.1, too.So if you want to get a newer version you have to compile it.For this you can include the CentOS-repositories into Oracle-Linux and install the needed compilation tools (gcc...).OR try to get a way around using that no-check-device option.Update 2013-06-07 about loopback-mounting:Your problem with the changing major/minor propably arises because Oracle-VM itselv is dynamically using loopback-mounts by itselv. I would recommend the following steps:losetup your backup-image to a high-numbered loopback-device (like /dev/loop50)Do a kpartx -av on that device (this should give you a device for the Windows-C-partition)Mount that partition ro (propably with ntfs-utils or newer)Do your incementaly backup with tar or rsync.umountkpartx -dvrelease the loopback-device with losetupI will provide further details when I am on a CentOS-box (including your repository-question).