On Saturday 08 April 2006 22:04, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Anne Wilson schreef: > > What does it mean by > > > > | DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory > > > > ? > > > > I believe Gene said something earlier about dump not being able to handle > > subdirectories. I didn't use tar on the photo directory because they are > > already compressed, but does this mean that I need to set gnutar after > > all? > > Yes indeed. Dump does whole filesystems. Some implementations > of dump (like yours) can handle a level 0 dump of a subdirectory, > but not incrementals of them. > Switch to gnutar if you want to backup things smaller than a complete > filesystem. > Tar has nothing to do with compression. That is a different option > that can be applied to both dump or tar backups.
Thanks, Paul. I guess I knew, but hadn't made the connection. I'm learning, though ;-) Anne
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