[BBLISA] Definition of dump levels?

[Daniel Hagerty]

"Edward Ned Harvey" <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> writes:

> However, I don't know any good way to handle this, do you?  (Beside the
> obvious solution of full backup every day.)  In my environment, full backups
> take too long to do them every day.  I can afford to spend 12 hours per day
> maxing out the IO on the weekend, but not during the week when people are
> expecting the systems to be available and perform real work.

    It's pretty easy to solve this at layer 9.  At backup time,
generate a list of every object on the filesystem being backed up;
make sure this list is part of the backup.  At restore time, remove
every object that's in the restore area but isn't part of the current
list.