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Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems
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From: Andrew Thomson <andrew.thomson@itouch.com.au>
To: Joe Parks <pleaseworky@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
> 
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