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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:26:28 -0500
To: David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: DUMP
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At 01:42 AM 10.22.2002 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
>
>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)
>

The above is exactly my interpretation too and have been succesful with
restores starting with the "0" and moving through each incremental made
sequentially....

I have a lot of confidence in dump/restore as I have used it a lot on
serveral machines. In fact, just moved a large site with several vhosts
from a 40G to a new 80G. Only took 10 mins down time, including the switch
out of the hardware....

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net

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