On 17/05/2012 12:49, Matthias Petermann wrote: > currently I am experiencing something confusing. Some hours ago I did a > level 0 dump with the following command: > > dump -a -0 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.0.dump / > > This results in a quite big dump file. After changing a couple of files, > I tried to do another dump. This time as level 1. My expectation was > that the resulting dump would only contain the files which changed since > the level 0 dump. > > dump -a -1 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / > > To my surprise this seems to generate another full dump instead of > incremental. > > What did I miss or what mistake do I make?
You need '-u' on tose command lines in order to record the dates of your
dumps, including your initial level 0 dump, in /etc/dumpdates.
Cheers,
Matthew
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