On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:00:44PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hello, > I would like to backup the /etc directory, like this: > sudo dump -0uan -f - /etc | gzip -9 | ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa_host2 m...@host2 dd > of=/home/me/dump-files/dump-etc-l0-`date +%d%m%Y`.gz > > a) Is it normal that /etc/dumpdates is empty after the backup? > b) What do I have to modify to add the information into /etc/dumpdates?
Only filesystem backups are recorded in /etc/dumpdates. If you dump the filesystem that /etc is in (/), then it'll be recorded as you expect.
