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Subject: Re: Need to Backup Using Dump
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote:

> But note that this will dump the _complete_ file system's
> content to /mnt as dump cannot be "more selective" here.

The nodump flag along with -h0 can be used to exclude files or 
directories.  But agreed, dump is gear towards entire filesystems.