From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 11:51:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipsnetwork.net (mail.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F58437B509 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from 78lb019 (120-83.209-tic.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.120] (may be forged)) by mail.ipsnetwork.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3RIoYt00356 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:50:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Message-ID: <002c01c0cf4a$52f56f80$6700000a@78lb019> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: Subject: dump schedule Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:46:07 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How does one determine which dump levels to use for incremental backups? I have been running a zero level dump nightly Monday through Friday on different tapes. I would like to change the setup so that the backup only backs up level zero every friday, and does incremental backups of only the changed/altered files in the interim. What I'm having difficulty understanding, is which level number I should be using. for example: 0 first Friday, then 1 following Monday, then 1 every night until Thursday, and a new zero level on Friday. Would this schedule be feasible? Will it function properly as I am expecting? Nathan Vidican Nathan@Vidican.com http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message