At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:24:39 +1000, Minh Van Le wrote: > The problem with dump is that it can't do incremental backups on regular > directories. Dump must do a full backup of regular files/directories ie. a > level 0 dump, which isn't flexible enough for my site. To do incremental > backups with dump, the dump must be performed on an entire filesystem, the > reason I think is because it can't handle complicating the /etc/dumpdates > database.
not really. dump/restore work at the filesystem level (ie: they open /dev/hda1 and "understand" the filesystem directly). this is why they have such a hard time crossing devices - and need to be specifically written for each filesystem. every other tool (that i know of) works at the normal userspace level and so has no problems crossing device boundaries. the different access methods give you different advantages/disadvantages - just realise that dump/restore are in a different "class" than most of the other backup methods. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
