On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:36:35PM -0600, John E Hein wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote at 13:57 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008: > > Though I've not tried it, it should. > > > > I base that on the description of the command > > > > /usr/sbin/ufsdump [options] [arguments] files_to_dump > > > > and the belief that the include directive merely provides the args > > corresponding to "files_to_dump". > > Ah. Okay. That's a solaris ufsdump feature... linux, too, maybe > others. It won't work for the BSDs (filesystem only). > > And that's _if_ amanda passes that on the dump invocation. > I haven't tried it either or looked at the code yet. > > But one limitation (with solaris' ufsdump and linux's dump) is that > you can't do incrementals using that method. Level 0 only. I don't > know if amanda adds support on top of that to kludge in incremental > support - I doubt it, but I'm someone will speak up if you can. >
In the original query regarding ZFS the question was about file systems. I don't know if dump/ufsdump would regard a relative pathname that is a mount point as a file system. If it did, then incrementals and fulls could both be done. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
