From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 12: 1:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etrn.xmission.com (etrn.xmission.com [198.60.22.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AFF37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [198.60.22.22] (helo=mail.xmission.com) by etrn.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15PqO4-0006LY-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:01:32 -0600 Received: from [166.70.2.117] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15PqO2-0005ez-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:01:30 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6QJ1PK62119; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 04:31:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 04:31:25 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: James Howard Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <20010727043125.A62047@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <000901c115fc$fecc0550$162301d4@wklk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from howardjp@Glue.umd.edu on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:54:52PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Mobile: 0419 868 494 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message