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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.ip.net!server.esva.net!server.esva.net!thom From: Thom Henderson <thom@esva.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Backups - which method do you prefer? Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 07:45:40 -0400 Organization: The Eastern Shore of Virginia Network Lines: 7 Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950717074330.21148B-100000@server.esva.net> References: <3tr2te$de0_002@ventura.rain.org> <1995Jul14.205553.17021@news.snu.ac.kr> <3ubkq8$9i3@mailhub.hcl.com> <3ucohm$om1@westie.mid.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: server.esva.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3ucohm$om1@westie.mid.net> > Man tar. There are options in there for setting the level of the > backup, where 0 means do it/everything no matter, what, and then > 1 is everything that's changed since the last 0, and 2 everything that's > changed since both 0 and 1, etc... all the way up to 9. Tar may do that on my system, but the man page I've got doesn't say so. The man page for dump says it works that way.