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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. =A0I 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 b=
y=20
one or more incrementals then you will restore ALL files which were present=
=20
when each dump was made - including any files which have been intentionally=
=20
deleted since the dump was created. This isn't normally a problem but there=
=20
might be some obscure situations where it could be.

=2D-=20
Mike Clarke



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