Hi, On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:27:26PM +0530, Rajeesh Kumar wrote: > I have backup problem of redhat 7.2 with ext3 file system. I'm using dump for backup. > The problem is one of the filesystem (/proj) Incremantal backup is not happening. > The command used is > dump -u1a -f /dev/st0 /dev/md0 > > Daily its taking the entire file system backup eventhough i tried incremental. > This is happening only for /proj and proj1 is working fine. Have you done a level 0 backup on that filesystem at all? If you use dumplevel 1, dump will perform a dump of everything that has been changed since the last level 0 dump (NOT since the last level 1). If you've never done a level 0, then every level 1 will be a full dump. --Stephen