suggestion on a backup utility
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Tue May 6 20:21:26 UTC 2008
Jerry McAllister writes:
> How about using dump(8)/restore(8).
> It will handle all file situations correctly.
> Its main knock is that it can only dump by file systems and
> not sub-directories, though you can restore by subdirectory or
> individual file.
While it will only dump a file system, you can tell it to
ignore directories/files. See "chflag" for more info.
WARNING: choosing poorly, or forgetting you've done this, can
come back to bite you big-time.
Robert Huff
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