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To: "David Lloyd" <lloy0076@adam.com.au>,
	"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
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Subject: Re: DUMP
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:39:52 -0400
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Hi again all,

Thanks for all the insight!

I take it we could DUMP each filesystem individually, then simply RESTORE it
to a new machine, as long as the filesystem exists and is big enough.

Can we DUMP all filesystems from one machine in one file then restore it?

-Grant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To: "David Lloyd" <lloy0076@adam.com.au>
Cc: <grant@thenetnow.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: DUMP


> 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
>


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