On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:26:56PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:02:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > 
> > Any reason not to use dump on the ext3 FS?  Perhaps another
> > bad assumption, but I assume it preserves acl's.
> 
> Hmmm, I'll have to look at that.  If I understand dump correctly, it
> cannot backup by directory, but rather backs up entire filesystems,
> correct?  If that is correct, then it might not work for me.  The
> filesystem in question is 147GB large.

It can not do incrementals by directory.  It can do level 0's.
I sometimes (seldom) use it for copying trees.

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