On 08/29/12 2:43 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Yes, there is commercial software to do incremental backups but I do not > know of commandline options to do this. Maybe anyone? > > Les is right, I stop the server, take the snapshot, start the server and > do the xdelta on the snapshot NSF files. > Having that minimal downtime is ok and acknowledged by the customer. I found some more stuff on a IBM site talking about the API (has to be called from software, not command line) to generate and keep track of transaction log files which the backup software archives. nothing about de-dup. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast