Re: Working star backup script

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:33:21 +0100

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"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:


> >>> And please note: this script creates a "standard" tar archive
> >>> but nothing that could be called a "backup".
> >>
> >> Can you elaborate why?
> >
> > because it does not archive enough meta data. Star -dump or
> > star level=0 does.
>
> You want to say that in example I posted before I should only add -dump 
> parameter to achive propper backup?

Adding -dump helps a lot.

If you use level=0 and write a "tardumps" record, you may create a
level x dump later

Jörg

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