Re: Dump levels ?

2010-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois
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 Are all dump levels packed into the same

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-03-03 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
On 04/03/10 01:21, Jean-Francois wrote: 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 Are all dump levels packed into the same one file like I seem to understand ? As far as I am concerned

Re: Dump levels dump(8) man page clarification

2010-02-20 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Vendredi 19 Fivrier 2010 22:04:00, Philip Guenther a icrit : On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: ... Not sure to understand the subtle of the man page explanations regarding the dump of different nature of mount points. Just one additional

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:54:55PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: 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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:51:23PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Jeudi 18 Fivrier 2010 23:43:38, Adriaan a icrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] My dump level 1 dumps all the files again. How to let it dump based on the lower

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Vendredi 19 Fivrier 2010 21:15:46, Otto Moerbeek a icrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:51:23PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Jeudi 18 Fivrier 2010 23:43:38, Adriaan a icrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] My dump level

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:49:35PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Vendredi 19 Fivrier 2010 21:15:46, Otto Moerbeek a icrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:51:23PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Jeudi 18 Fivrier 2010 23:43:38, Adriaan a icrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21 PM,

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: ... Not sure to understand the subtle of the man page explanations regarding the dump of different nature of mount points. Just one additional information, the dump of higher levels work when I dump /var but not

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Greg Thomas
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, and...@msu.edu wrote: Dump levels other than 0 allow you to make partial dumps. I used to do dump level 0's at the start of the month. Then from Monday to Thursday I'd to dump 9's. Each dump would save things from the previous 9 (or 0 the first time

Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Jean-Francois
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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Gilles Chehade
figure out what upper levels are. Regards from dump(8)'s man page: -0-9Dump 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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Jean-Francois
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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Adriaan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] 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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
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) ?

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Jeudi 18 Fivrier 2010 23:43:38, Adriaan a icrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] 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

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-18 Thread andres
levels are. Regards Dump levels other than 0 allow you to make partial dumps. I used to do dump level 0's at the start of the month. Then from Monday to Thursday I'd to dump 9's. Each dump would save things from the previous 9 (or 0 the first time). Friday's I'd do a level 8. Thus each M-T I'd