Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 04:31:25 +0930 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= <kuehl@lgk.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <20010727043125.A62047@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261449560.14427-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>; from howardjp@Glue.umd.edu on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:54:52PM -0400 References: <000901c115fc$fecc0550$162301d4@wklk> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261449560.14427-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
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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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