From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 7:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF1037B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from grummit.biaix.org (213-97-212-86.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.212.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23A0743EBE for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joan@grummit.biaix.org) Received: (qmail 69265 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Dec 2002 15:47:39 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:47:39 +0100 From: Joan Picanyol i Puig To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: clarification of man dump Message-ID: <20021206154739.GB69019@grummit.biaix.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have some trouble understanding the last part of 'man dump', from "An efficient method of...". My understanding is that the example means: 1. Take a level 0 dump once a month 2. Take a level 1 dump once a week 3. Take a level 3 dump on mondays, a level 2 on tuesdays, a level 5 on wednesdays and so on until a level 9 on sundays. Am I missing something? What's so "efficient" from doing it this way (why)? tks -- pica To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message