Re: Dump and nodump flag?

[Blake Swensen]

Ok... (whacking forehead)duh. got focused on mode and stopped reading flags. Thanks for the kick start :)

Still wonders if this is the best way to accomplish the goal of only backing up a partial filesystem?

Peace,
Blake

Drew Tomlinson wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Blake Swensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeBSD List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:59 AM
Subject: Dump and nodump flag?

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.

This and other flags are set via the 'chflags' utility.  Check the man
page.

Cheers,

Drew

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