On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 at 2:36pm, Matteo Centonza wrote > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > Hmm, if I remember correctly, i've made subtree dump in the past with > amanda. BTW there's that's from ext2fs dump manpage: > *snip* > > so it's possible (with some restrictions e.g. only full dumps). The same > applies for xfsdump: > Yes, and that's the limitation. When amanda tries to do incrementals, it will fail when dump tells it that it can't do that. So if you're only doing full dumps, then dump is fine. But, for incrementals of subdirectories, you *must* use tar.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
