On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:58:49 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I've been using dump to perform backups of my home Debian workstation (I > run squeeze, btw). I do a weekly level 0 dump and daily level 1 dumps. > > For some reason the level 1 backups are almost as large as the level 0 > (the level 0 is 57.9 GB and the level 1 is 51.6 GB), even though we > clearly don't modify anything like that many files in the interval from > one day to the next. The commands that I am using for these backups are > of the form: > > dump -0u -f "/media/FreeAgent Drive/filename0" -A "media/FreeAgent > Drive/archive0" /dev/md3 > dump -1u -f "/media/FreeAgent Drive/filename1" -A "media/FreeAgent > Drive/archive1" /dev/md3 > > where /dev/md3 is my RAID1 array root partition. > > Any idea why the level-1 backups are almost as large as the level-0?
Maybe because the data source to backup (/dev/md3) is in use ("live" system) so file time stamps are constantly changing and puzzling "dump" :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.02.10.07...@gmail.com