On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21:02PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote:
> Le Jeudi 18 Fivrier 2010 23:02:38, Otto Moerbeek a icrit :
> > 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
>
> My dump level 1 dumps all the files again. How to let it dump based on the
> lower level ?
>
> I did as follows :
> sudo dump -0ua -f /mnt/tera/backup/2010.02.18_www.0 /var/www/htdocs/
> sudo dump -0ua -f /mnt/tera/backup/2010.02.18_www.1 /var/www/htdocs/
You are doing two level 0 dumps. The seconds invication should use -1ua
Also, note that these dumps are filesystem dumps. A whole filesystem
is dumped this way.
-Otto
>
> Regards
