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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