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