Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:53:28 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011473609.3befd1@mired.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Message-ID: <15427.17736.753992.943127@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020114183532.GA991@woodstock.monkey.net> References: <15426.33499.296182.78699@guru.mired.org> <0ecd43711140e12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> <02aad1513140e12FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> <15426.63500.847866.284422@guru.mired.org> <ukk7ukwzrk.7uk@localhost.localdomain> <20020114183532.GA991@woodstock.monkey.net>
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Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> types: > "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, said on Mon Jan 14, 2002 [10:31:11 AM]: > } A NOTE ON "dump" USAGE: I see a problem with using dump in that the man > } page says it doesn't dump files and directories with the "nodump" file > } flag set. That seems to mean that to do a backup with confidence, one > } would need to run "chflags" on everything one intends to dump. Not a > } big problem if one remembers to do it; it just lengthens the process. > > No; from elsewhere in the dump(8) manpage: > > -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. > > So to effectively "turn off" nodump, just specify -h 0 on the dump command > line. That's backward - you've just told it to honor nodump on full backups. To disable it for all backups, you want "nodump -h 10". Of course, that sort of defeats the purpose of turning it on in the first place. I mean - why would you turn on the nodump flag for a file other than because you didn't want it backed up? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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