On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, James Howard wrote:
:On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lars Kühl wrote:
:
:> Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes.
:> Use dump instead.
:
:A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that
:great either. There is no way to exlude specific directories with dump
From the dump(8) manpage:
Dump honors the user ``nodump'' flag (UF_NODUMP) on regular files and
directories. If a directory is marked ``nodump'', the latter and all
files and directories under it will not be backed up. That is, dump
propagates the ``nodump'' flag on directories.
:and it appears to be quite painful to restore a specific directory (though
:I could be wrong about this.
Interactive restore isn't that painful, and -x is useful as well.
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