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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!excalibur!bbj.freenix.fr!not-for-mail From: card@bbj.freenix.fr (Remy Card) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dump(1) just dumps entire partition? Date: 14 Dec 1995 14:48:38 +0100 Organization: A poor lonesome Usenet site Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4ap9vm$1nj@bbj.freenix.fr> References: <4ai90d$21m@mistral.toppoint.de> <4aol56$8li@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bbj.freenix.fr In article <4aol56$8li@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, <dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu> wrote: >In <4ai90d$21m@mistral.toppoint.de>, kai@mistral.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt) writes: > No, dump cannot dump a single directory. Dump works at one step below >the user-level filesystem interface, at the level of inodes. At this level, >a directory is just an inode, like any other file or device node. > If you want to archive a single directory and/or work at the file level, >use tar or cpio or the like. Well, modifying dump to make it able to backup subtree should not be that difficult. Sun did it in SunOS and I did it when porting the 4.4BSD dump to Linux's Ext2fs. If there is any interest, I can try to adapt my changes to the FreeBSD dump. Remy