From: utzoo!decvax!cca!roode.uci@Rand-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Dump levels
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4316
Posted: Mon Nov 22 23:07:20 1982
Received: Wed Nov 24 10:04:12 1982

From:      Dana Roode <roode.uci@Rand-Relay>
Date:      19 Nov 82 15:19:08-PST (Fri)
We used varying dump levels for awhile, but have since stopped.  We now
do weekly fullsaves (level 0) and daily "save everything since the
last fullsave" level 9 saves.  Thus, we never use levels 1-8.  This
makes it much easier (and safer) to recover after we lose the file
system since we never have to worry about more than 2 saves.  The
redundancy is also nice, a given file is more likely to be on
another save tape if one is no good.

			Dana Roode