Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:26:28 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au> Cc: grant@thenetnow.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DUMP Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021021112628.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20021022014227.00792af1.lloy0076@adam.com.au> References: <3.0.5.32.20021021104915.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> <011e01c27916$6fcdb9b0$6401a8c0@grant> <3.0.5.32.20021021104915.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net>
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At 01:42 AM 10.22.2002 +0930, David Lloyd wrote: > >Jack, > >> >Can anyone explain how the DUMP levels work? I understand that 0 is a >> >full FS dumo, but what does 1, 2, 3, 4 etc etc etc stand for? > >Level 0 > - full dump > >Level 1 > - dumps only the files that have changed since the last level 0 dump > >Level 2 > - dumps only the files that have changed since the last level 1 dump > >Level 3 > - dumps only the files that have changes since the last level 2 dump > >(and so forth) > The above is exactly my interpretation too and have been succesful with restores starting with the "0" and moving through each incremental made sequentially.... I have a lot of confidence in dump/restore as I have used it a lot on serveral machines. In fact, just moved a large site with several vhosts from a 40G to a new 80G. Only took 10 mins down time, including the switch out of the hardware.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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