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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:29:18 -0800
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Joe Parks <pleaseworky@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ?
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:52:02AM -0700, 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...

No, I'd just dump the whole filesystem.
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