Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:30:24 -0800 From: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Cc: Scott Renna <srenna@vdbmusic.com> Subject: Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive Message-ID: <004501c39e9e$89b94e30$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <001001c39e9c$a758b040$0201a8c0@mars>
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> What would you guys say would be the best method of dumping a live file > system and excluding a certain group of directories(namely /tmp and > /mnt)? Well, if /tmp is on it's own partition, you can just omit it from your dump routine. Otherwise, set the nodump flag. See man chflags. You will have to use the -h option with dump, so you may also want to take a look at the dump man page.
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