Hi Paul, Funny that you mention tar. The reason why I chose dump is that dump was supposed to handle open files better than tar. Plus, I don't like the idea of atime being updated because of a backup.
Anyway, I couldn't find anything about this in the changelogs of dump/restore between my version and the latest one. Plus, I think this would be a rather silly bug, as I can't imagine too many people unmounting their filesystems before running dump... Maybe I should consider switching to tar. In the meantime, let's hope I won't have to do a restore from scratch... I checked the tapes, and there are no restoresymtables on it anywhere. Thanks for your help so far. Kind regards, Hans van Zijst On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:06, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > AFAIK, this wouldn't have the effect of the message "Incremental dump > too low". Because dump dumps the diskblocks themselves, an active > filesystem could screw up the dumpprocess itself. The restore command > would get confused, but not about deciding which level it expects. > > The restore process should leave a file "restoresymtable" in the root > directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. > Could it be that such a file was restored from the level 0, > overwriting the current one and indicating that a level 2 or more > was expected? > > ps. I switched to tar a long time ago, mainly because I run a mixed > environment and I need to be able to restore onto a completely different > architecture. ______________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses ______________________________________________________ De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking van deze informatie aan derden is niet toegestaan. Wij aanvaarden geen aansprakelijkheid voor de juiste en volledige overbrenging van de inhoud van een verzonden e-mail bericht, noch voor tijdige ontvangst ervan. ______________________________________________________ HTTP://WWW.Syncera.NL ______________________________________________________