From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 07:29:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACE4106566B for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:29:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0138FC14 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5B7T4fR034256 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:29:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q5B7T4fR034256 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1339399746; bh=OnGRsr2i4QSSXKwhEMNQqxoiUPncDWia6Xc8f8QxZi8=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: Message-ID:Mime-Version; b=Sxb2y0KE9ONX+/oqG5qHYB1lkzdHLFwc+OrDYPzvG9qRBHuMIC8ydjEfTtXK9hyAe j+kBll3iWIjqkle5hBdjV39b2DN/1EihG/bcZk4XOjA2fYkxNFnK7HLQ+m3K6cAhY3 jK4ntwekVaVhD58aqQZu3amPFSYRUsd9geQCbQ7U= Message-ID: <4FD59E40.3060506@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:29:04 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" References: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigEFE729C9F864BF9D52E7A48A" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_ALL,DKIM_SIGNED,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:29:10 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigEFE729C9F864BF9D52E7A48A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/06/2012 23:14, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Well, nevermind about that. I get the general idea, i.e. that dumping > at level N causes dumping of everything that has changed since the last= > dump at level N-1. Not quite. A dump at level N includes everything that changed since the most recent dump at level M where M