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From: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com>
To: cjc@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: chris@fedde.littleton.co.us, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ?
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:52:02 -0700
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Any suggestions on how to accomplish this without big ugly hacks involving 
find and altering file dates and such ?  I am just afraid to use tar, since 
/dev - like special files are involved, etc...and it has been made clear 
time and time again that dump is all that you can use...

thanks!


>
>On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:12:42AM -0700, Joe Parks wrote:
> >
> > 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 ?)
>
>No. dump(1) works on whole filesystems.
>--
>"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."
>
>Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
>http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org


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