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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
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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