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
A level 0 dumps includes all files. A level n dump are all the files
that have changed or were added since the last level n - 1 dump.
-Otto
