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Jerry McAllister writes:

>  How about using dump(8)/restore(8).
>  It will handle all file situations correctly.   
>  Its main knock is that it can only dump by file systems and
>  not sub-directories, though you can restore by subdirectory or
>  individual file.   

	While it will only dump a file system, you can tell it to
ignore directories/files.  See "chflag" for more info.
	WARNING: choosing poorly, or forgetting you've done this, can
come back to bite you big-time.


				Robert Huff