On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:53:20PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'day all...
> 
> I've been formulating a backup routine for one of my servers which runs 
> Mandrake 8.2 using dump.
> 
> Yesterday I performed a full backup, today I went to perform an 
> incremental backup.
> 
> This is the command and output from dump:
> 
> # dump 9 -f root20021115-inc.dump /
>   DUMP: WARNING: There is no inferior level dump on this filesystem
>   DUMP: WARNING: Assuming a level 0 dump by default
> [...]
> 
> Err... As you can see dump doesn't want to perform an incremental backup. 
> Any ideas on how to implement an incremental backup?

It's fairly clear that IT doesn't think there has been
a full backup.  Did the full backup complete successfully?

What does
        dump -W
or
        cat /etc/dumpdates
show?

Matt
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