Re: problem with incremental dump updates
but I get lots of warning: cannot create hard link ./bin/uncompress-./bin/gunzip: File exists Dump is probably complaining that it can't create a symbolic link because the symbolic link already exists. It probably always archives symbolic links, whether they have been recently created or not. It should lstat() them and see if they point to the right place, and if so it should not complain. A recent alpha-test version of GNU tar emits this same complaint. Bruce
problem with incremental dump updates
I did a level 0 dump of a partition into another with the command dump u0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -) Now I want to do a level 9 update, so that only what was changed since the level 0 dump is upgraded. I tried dump uf - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -) but I get lots of warning: cannot create hard link ./bin/uncompress-./bin/gunzip: File exists Am I doing something wrong? Is dump really able to only update what has changed? Carlos