From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 12 17:54: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E3F37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:54:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from floyd.gnulife.org (floyd.gnulife.org [199.86.41.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E20A43E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD789432C9; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:09:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F517432C6 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:09:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:09:25 -0600 (CST) From: Jamie To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: [OT?] Making backups with dump Message-ID: <20021112200003.H72047-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am not sure if this is on topic or not, if not, please correct me. I am running some freebsd servers at an ISP and I am trying to do remote backups with dump. I am trying to run it over ssh so this is the command I am using: dump -0uaf - /www/homes| ssh remotehost.foo.com dd of=/usr/backup3/jo.test bs=10k I know that I can run an incremental backup this way: dump -3uaf - /www/homes| ssh remotehost.foo.com dd of=/usr/backup3/jo.test2 bs=10k (I changed the backup number from 0 to 3, and I changed the output file to a different filename.) How is dump supposed to know which files to incrementally back up? It seems as though it is generating a file just as large as the first. I know my method of sending it across ssh may be messing something up. Any ideas? Thanks! - Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message