Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:42:27 +0930 From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: grant@thenetnow.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DUMP Message-ID: <20021022014227.00792af1.lloy0076@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021021104915.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> References: <011e01c27916$6fcdb9b0$6401a8c0@grant> <3.0.5.32.20021021104915.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net>
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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) Depending on the complexity of your backups you may want to have a look at http://www.amanda.org/ (I don't know whether it's in ports, currently on my Linux box). DSL -- The Linux C Programming Lists: * http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linuxcprogramming/ The Linux C++ Programming Lists: * http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/tuxcpprogramming/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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