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From: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com>
To: chris@fedde.littleton.co.us
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Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ?
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:12:42 -0700
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So that is as elegant as it gets - there is no built in functionality for 
what I am describing (that is, it isn't designed to do that ?)

thanks.

>
>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


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