dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Ilari Laitinen
it work? Am I relatively safe doing level 0 dump every two months and increasing dump level for weekly backups like the following, given two separate harddrives storing them? DateDump level 2005-09-01 0 2005-09-08 1 2005-09-15 2 ... 2005-10-27 8 2005-11-03 0 Thanks. Ilari Laitinen

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Ilari Laitinen
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:22:20PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ilari Laitinen wrote: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed