Dump and nodump flag?

[Blake Swensen]

The manual for dump states:

...
-h level
Honor the user ``nodump'' flag (UF_NODUMP) only for dumps at or
above the given level. The default honor level is 1, so that
incremental backups omit such files but full backups retain them.
...

I have looked at the several man pages referenced by this, and searched the mailing list archives. I want to take advantage of this feature but cannot find how to set this flag.

This is really an attempt to only back up part of a file system on a dump run. For instance, /dev/ad2s1e is mounted at /usr/exports/corporate and contains /usr/exports/corporate/reallyimportant and /usr/exports/corporate/justjunk.

I really don't care to back up justjunk, but since both justjunk and reallyimportant are in the same filesystem I really cannot do:
dump ..... /user/exports/corporate/reallyimportant.

Was thinking that the nodump flag might be the answer... if I could find out how to set it, and if nobody else has a better idea.

Blake

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