On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 at 6:17pm, Anne Wilson wrote
What exactly is meant by backup levels 1 & 2? For instance, when a backup
bumps to level 2, does that mean that the last level1 backup has all the
changes since level0, and the level 2 backups will have everything since the
bump date?
From 'man dump':
-level#
The dump level (any integer). A level 0, full backup, guaran-
tees 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 files new or modified since the last
dump of a lower level. The default level is 9. Historically
only levels 0 to 9 were usable in dump, this version is able to
understand any integer as a dump level.
IOW, a level 2 only grabs stuff that has changed since the last level 1.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
