Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:51:31 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? Message-ID: <201206130951.31804.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com> References: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com>
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On Sunday 10 June 2012 23:14:57 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. A point to be aware of is that if you restore from a full backup followed by one or more incrementals then you will restore ALL files which were present when each dump was made - including any files which have been intentionally deleted since the dump was created. This isn't normally a problem but there might be some obscure situations where it could be. -- Mike Clarkehelp
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