From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 9:54:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D8E37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from stella.pyramus.com (ns2.pyramus.com [67.92.212.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED1043EB7 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:54:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Received: from pyramus.com (dark-star.pyramus.com [10.10.1.7]) by stella.pyramus.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id gA7HwRx87469 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Message-ID: <3DCAA9E9.2040506@pyramus.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:59:05 -0800 From: Blake Swensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD List Subject: Dump and nodump flag? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 The manual for dump states: ... -h level Honor the user ``nodump'' flag (UF_NODUMP) only for dumps at or above the given level. The default honor level is 1, so that incremental backups omit such files but full backups retain them. ... I have looked at the several man pages referenced by this, and searched the mailing list archives. I want to take advantage of this feature but cannot find how to set this flag. This is really an attempt to only back up part of a file system on a dump run. For instance, /dev/ad2s1e is mounted at /usr/exports/corporate and contains /usr/exports/corporate/reallyimportant and /usr/exports/corporate/justjunk. I really don't care to back up justjunk, but since both justjunk and reallyimportant are in the same filesystem I really cannot do: dump ..... /user/exports/corporate/reallyimportant. Was thinking that the nodump flag might be the answer... if I could find out how to set it, and if nobody else has a better idea. Blake -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Internet Rescue Company - http://www.pyramus.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake R. Swensen Pyramus Online, Inc. President 2080 SE Oak Grove Blvd. Suite 11 Milwaukie, Oregon 97267 800-327-5101 vox:503-353-0455 fax:503-353-0453 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We measure success by the success of our clients" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message