From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 10:33:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D0337B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from stella.pyramus.com (ns2.pyramus.com [67.92.212.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2993143E3B for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Received: from pyramus.com (dark-star.pyramus.com [10.10.1.7]) by stella.pyramus.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id gA7IbLx87939 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Message-ID: <3DCAB307.1080708@pyramus.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:37:59 -0800 From: Blake Swensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Dump and nodump flag? References: <3DCAA9E9.2040506@pyramus.com> <009901c28689$6b06bb40$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok... (whacking forehead)duh. got focused on mode and stopped reading flags. Thanks for the kick start :) Still wonders if this is the best way to accomplish the goal of only backing up a partial filesystem? Peace, Blake Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blake Swensen" > To: "FreeBSD List" > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:59 AM > Subject: Dump and nodump flag? > > > >>The manual for dump states: >> >>... >> -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. > >>... >> >>I have looked at the several man pages referenced by this, and > > searched > >>the mailing list archives. I want to take advantage of this feature > > but > >>cannot find how to set this flag. >> >>This is really an attempt to only back up part of a file system on a >>dump run. For instance, /dev/ad2s1e is mounted at >>/usr/exports/corporate and contains >>/usr/exports/corporate/reallyimportant and > > /usr/exports/corporate/justjunk. > >>I really don't care to back up justjunk, but since both justjunk and >>reallyimportant are in the same filesystem I really cannot do: >>dump ..... /user/exports/corporate/reallyimportant. >> >>Was thinking that the nodump flag might be the answer... if I could > > find > >>out how to set it, and if nobody else has a better idea. > > > This and other flags are set via the 'chflags' utility. Check the man > page. > > Cheers, > > Drew > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message