Date: 29 Dec 2001 20:08:19 +1100 From: Andrew Thomson <andrew.thomson@itouch.com.au> To: Joe Parks <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: cjc@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@fedde.littleton.co.us, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ? Message-ID: <1009616930.692.1.camel@oblivion.whitefox.com.au> In-Reply-To: <F112Jp9PYRjzJ2ObbJA0001248a@hotmail.com> References: <F112Jp9PYRjzJ2ObbJA0001248a@hotmail.com>
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At last check, dump also has a nodump flag option. Actually, check out the -h in man dump. See also man chflags on how to set this flag. I was using this at one point to do a similar thing. Anyway, perhaps this is another option!!?? ;) Regards, A On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 19:52, Joe Parks wrote: > > 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 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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