From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 1:28: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63BD637B400 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:28:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 54389 invoked by uid 100); 12 Jan 2002 09:27:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15424.414.982786.616865@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:27:58 -0600 To: "Joe Parks" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ? In-Reply-To: <87823828@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.43 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Parks 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. 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