Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:07:50 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ? Message-ID: <200112290807.fBT87ox00793@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <F54kuO4sBsQ1TdsCLHB000123c8@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:22:15 -0700 "Joe Parks" wrote:
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| 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".
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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
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Chris Fedde
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