Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:27:58 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011259679.136048@mired.org> To: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ? Message-ID: <15424.414.982786.616865@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <87823828@toto.iv>
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Joe Parks <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> types: > 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... Have you thought about putting the magic directory(ies) on a separate file system so you can use dump on it? If the /dev - like special files really are devices, the other alternative is a script that grovels over the output of ls to produce a script that recreates those files correctly, then use tar and exclude them. More details on the problem would mean more details in the solution. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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