From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 08:51:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589071065678 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0818FC14 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id Mkrd1j00E516WCc01krei5; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:51:38 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=I8Dntacg c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=RLl8lpB8pwYA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=tB-XMb4JaUVZ8I7HIF8A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SejIa-0000yB-1y for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:51:37 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:51:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201206130951.31804.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:51:47 -0000 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