On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 at 11:18am, Edwin Chiu wrote
> Why is it that dump 0.4b15 allows dumps of directories that are not it's own
> partitions?
> Are those dumps still good?
>
Any dump will do a dump of a subdirectory, but it will always be a level
0 (i.e. full dump). My guess as to what happened to you is that somewhere
between 0.4b15 and 0.4b19, the dump maintainers changed the behavior of
dump when requested to do a level [1-9] of a subdirectory from "just do a
level 0 and don't tell him about it" to "tell him I don't do this, and
don't do it." But I have no verification of that.
To truly get incrementals, you'll need to use tar.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
