Subject: Re: dump levels
To: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
From: James da Silva <jds@cs.umd.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/14/1996 18:04:35
> The manual page for dump(8) in i386 1.1 states that dump level numbers
> above zero archives those files which were added or changed since *the
> specified* level or lesser levels. This is different from the manual
> pages for dump in other flavors, which state that a given level captures
> all changes made after the time of the lesser levels only. I am
> understanding this to mean that if I did one level zero followed by two
> level ones, the second level one would be empty under NetBSD but
> identical to the first level one under others. Is this true?
No, NetBSD dump behaves in the expected way - the manual page is incorrect.
Jaime
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