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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!crusty.teleport.com!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape Backup help Date: 14 Oct 1996 15:53:24 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <53ug94$6ck@itchy.serv.net> References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DzA0JE.AF9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >he was trying to dump only _part_ of a filesystem, which is simply >impossible due to the way how dump works (by scanning the raw dev that >corresponds to the filesystem). what happens if you specify a level 1 dump? This dumps the part of the filesystem which has been modified since the last level 0 dump in the current implementation, does it not? This is standard dump behavior, but I've never done it on FreeBSD. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson