Joi Ellis wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote:
>
> >
> >Dump can *only* access the local filesystem: it reads the actual
> >partition, and thus only sees mount points as directories.
> >
>
> This depends upon the version of dump and the platform.
> Linux dump groks directories anywhere on the disk, not just partition
> device names or mount points.
True enough. (Though with all the other things that have been said
about Linux dump, I'm not sure I would trust it to do that correctly.)
> But, the version I'm using doesn't
> store dump levels for anything except a full partition or mountpoint.
> A subdirectory below the mountpoint can be backed up with dump but the
> dump timestamps aren't recorded. Or something like that.
But using it that way would render it useless with Amanda.
> --
> Joi Ellis
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