On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:54:55PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to clarify what resides behind the concept of levels regarding
> dump(8) ?
> For me the level 0 is understood to be a complete dump of all files on at a
> given mount point and all subdirectories. But I can't figure out what upper
> levels are.
>
> Regards
>
from dump(8)'s man page:
-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 a lower level. The de-
fault level is 0.
So a dump of level 0 is a complete dump, a dump of level 1 is a dump of all
files since last dump 0, a dump of level 2 is a dump of all files since last
dump of level 1, and so on
Gilles
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Gilles Chehade
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