So if I dump 9 and the last dump was 7 it will dump everything since 7.
So if I dump 9 and the last dump was 8 it will dump everything since 8.
correct?

jam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hamilton" <hamilton@pobox.com>
To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
Cc: "John Maier" <jmaier@midamerica.net>; "Frederick Bruckman"
<fb@enteract.com>; <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: Tape Backups -- tar vs. dump


>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.20.0101022246430.2114-100000@wojtek.from.pl>,
Wojciech P
> uchar wrote:
> } >
> } > What I plan is to do a -0 backup Saturday morning and then do a
incremental
> } > backup on the rest of the days.
> } >
> } > The man page isn't all that clear on what dump levels other that -0
(zero)
> } dump level n backup changes since latest dump with level <n
>
> Close, it does all changes since the latest dump with level <= n.  Sounds
> nit-picky, but it's an important distinction.
>
> --
>    Jon Hamilton
>    hamilton@pobox.com
>
>