On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:54:52PM -0400, 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
> and it appears to be quite painful to restore a specific directory (though
> I could be wrong about this.
>From dump(8):
Dump honors the user ``nodump'' flag (UF_NODUMP) on regular files and di-
rectories. 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.
(Note that the recursive nature of the flag only became available in a
release starting with FreeBSD 4.3).
Restoring a particular directory is quite easy. Interactive mode is my
favourite way of doing that. See restore(8).
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