[lug] dumpdates

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Fri Aug 11 19:12:32 MDT 2000


dumpdates is usually written to when you use the dump utility to back
things up.  I believe it's function is to give you dates when the last
dump was run and at which backup level (i.e. it facilitates incremental
backups).

Hugh

John Starkey wrote:
> 
> This MAY be self explanatory. But I just found a file called dumpdates
> owned by disk.
> 
> Is this some sort of backup config??
> 
> And I just found my long lost /etc backup.... it was in the /etc dir....
> hmmm.... ok
> 
> John
> 
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