From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 13:15:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (lists.sysadmin-inc.com [209.16.228.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2F837B698 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wkst ([209.16.228.145]) by virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA32595 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:15:16 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Peter Brezny" To: Subject: 3 dump questions Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:14:17 -0500 Message-ID: <003101c087dc$f1936ee0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What's the difference between -1 and -2 etc in the incrimental level. Can dump be used to back up parts of a file system as opposed to the entire file system? Is there a way to configure dump to compress its output? I noticed on a small file system the dump file was larger than the entire contents of the filesystem. TIA Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message