Date: 25 Dec 1999 03:47:56 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump levels Message-ID: <841b8s$1vt3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912241147100.20931-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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<keith@mail.telestream.com> wrote: > I'm trying to better understand the different dump levels. I've > succesfully dumped all file systems with a > dump -0auf /dev/rsa0 <file system> . 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
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