From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 15:53:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plamen.bgstore.com (bgstore.digsys.bg [193.68.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0505337B7CE for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plamendp@plamen.bgstore.com) Received: from localhost (plamendp@localhost) by plamen.bgstore.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA14364; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:51:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from plamendp@plamen.bgstore.com) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:51:14 +0300 (EEST) From: Plamen Petkov To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: back up with dump|restore In-Reply-To: <200008042227.PAA50225@illiad.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I, myself, accepted the hypothese that I will never need an intermediate backup state. Soemthing like 'last backup state or nothing' :-) Anyway, thanks for the advise :-) ----------------------------------- Plamen D. Petkov (ICQ 2214327 [pdp]) plamendp@bgstore.com First Bulgarian Internet Store http://auction.bgstore.com http://www.bgstore.com ----------------------------------- On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > files saved as /mnt/dump.mon, /mnt/dump.tue, etc... > > Here's why: > > create /usr/test.file on monday. > backup /usr/test.file to /mnt/usr/test.file on monday night. > edit /usr/test.file on tuesday. > backup /usr/test.file to /mnt/usr/test.file on tuesday night. > realize i want the monday version of /usr/test.file which has now been > overridden. > > Keep separate files and that won't happen since there will be a copy of > /usr/test.file in both the dump for monday and tuesday... > > -philip > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message