On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:17:52PM -0400, Boyd James H wrote:
> We are running BSD version 4.4 and it appears that the dump utility ignores
> the nodump flag and backs up the hierarchy below the directory flagged as
> nodump.  
> 
> In the example below, the structure below env1 is included in the dump.  Are
> we doing something incorrect? 

> dump -0uan -f - /usr |gzip |rsh oos0a dd of=/raid1/backup/kws5a/full/usr_0

Yes.  you need to use the `-h 0' flag to tell dump to honour the
nodump flag when you're doing a level zero dump.  The default is to
honour nodump only for level 1 or higher.

        Cheers,

        Matthew


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