From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 24 19:35:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6222151F9 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:35:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id EAA23690 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:35:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA65452 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 03:47:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: dump levels Date: 25 Dec 1999 03:47:56 +0100 Message-ID: <841b8s$1vt3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > I'm trying to better understand the different dump levels. I've > succesfully dumped all file systems with a > dump -0auf /dev/rsa0 . The man page doesn't give any > information on what the other levels mean aside from just showing them and > saying it's a "tower of hanoi" Thing. The man page *is* rather clear: -0-9 Dump levels. A level 0, full backup, guarantees the entire file system is copied (but see also the -h option below). A level number above 0, incremental backup, tells dump to copy all files new or modified since the last dump of any lower level. The de- fault level is 0. (Forget the Tower of Hanoi thing.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message