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dump incremental backups

Posted Dec 1, 2007 9:10 UTC (Sat) by mennucc1 (subscriber, #14730)
In reply to: How The Backup Process Has Changed by chema
Parent article: How The Backup Process Has Changed

The way 'dump' does incremental backups is superior to what can be achieved by simply using 
  tar '--after-date DATE', '--newer DATE'


Dump indeed stores also the state of directories, so that incremental backups will keep record
of which files were deleted.

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