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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Dump appears to ignore the nodump flag
To: Boyd James H <boyd.jh@mellon.com>,
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In-Reply-To: Boyd James H's message of Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:17:52 -0400
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> We are running BSD version 4.4 and it appears that the dump utility ignores
> the nodump flag and backs up the hierarchy below the directory flagged as
> nodump.  

Read the man page for dump, and in particular the -h flag.

-- Richard

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