> -----Original Message-----
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 9:51am, Ean Kingston wrote
>
> > I don't believe so. Amanda uses either the vendor supplied dump
> > program, or GNU tar to do the backup. I know GNU tar does not do
> > differential backup and AFAIK none of the vendor supplied
> dump programs
> > will do differential backup either (I'm pretty sure for
> Solaris, AIX,
> > *BSD, and Linux derivatives).
>
> The terminology here is a bit confusing. If by
> "differential" you mean
> only the bits (not whole files, but bits, like rsync) that
> have changed,
> then no, neither tar nor dump do that. But if Roberto meant
> incremental
> (as in the files that have changed), then of course amanda does that.
>
> Just trying to clarify for the archives.
Good point. Since a 'differential backup' is 'just the bits that changed' (like
rsync) for other backup software I've used, I assumed that Roberto meant that.
Perhaps I should have been clearer.
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