Re: full/partial query

Mr R G Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Call "man star" and then go to the section "INCREMENTAL BACKUPS"
>  >
> > Jörg
> > 
>
> Thanks Jörg,
>
>  From 'man star'
>
>      "In case that nofiles are renamed from excluded
>       parts to included parts,
>       partial backups may be taken also."
>
> This is true. The cache files I want to exclude will never be copied.
>
>      "Partial backups only make
>       sense if a complete directory sub tree is excluded (e.g.  by
>       using  the  pat=  option) or if a partial backup starts at a
>       sub directory that is not the root  directory  of  the  file
>       system."
>
> This is also true....
>
> However I cannot take a 0F and then a 3P. the 3P references [<3]P and not [<3]F 
> also, which is what i would desire...
>
> So should I use my exclude pattern on ALL levels? and run every dump I do as a 
> partial dump....
>
> Is there any danger in doing this as the only backup scheme for a filesystem?

OK, it seems that I would need to think about a 0-Full -> 1-Partial
backup strategy. Please give me some time....

Jörg

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