From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 0: 8: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11AC37B423 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fBT87ox00793; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:07:51 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200112290807.fBT87ox00793@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Joe Parks" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ? In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:07:50 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:22:15 -0700 "Joe Parks" wrote: +------------------ | So the question is, how can I `dump` a subset of an entire filesystem, and | not the entire filesystem itself ? I am against using `tar` for this, since | the subset in mind has special files in it (/dev - like files), etc., and I | have read carefully the comments of freebsd-core members who have said, in | the past: "use dump or you will lose". +------------------ One way to do this is with a combination of find(1), touch(1), the dump level option to dump(8) and a doctored dumpdates file. Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message