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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
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References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DzA0JE.AF9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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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.



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