Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:17:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Boyd James H <boyd.jh@mellon.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dump appears to ignore the nodump flag Message-ID: <20020715221757.GB32811@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020715211829.8373.qmail@mellon.com> References: <20020715211829.8373.qmail@mellon.com>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:17:52PM -0400, Boyd James H wrote:
> 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.
>
> In the example below, the structure below env1 is included in the dump. Are
> we doing something incorrect?
> dump -0uan -f - /usr |gzip |rsh oos0a dd of=/raid1/backup/kws5a/full/usr_0
Yes. you need to use the `-h 0' flag to tell dump to honour the
nodump flag when you're doing a level zero dump. The default is to
honour nodump only for level 1 or higher.
Cheers,
Matthew
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