On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:22:10AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> If you are using BSD, you can set the 'nodump' attribute to exclude
> directories; I use this a lot.  See chflags(1).  I don't know if other
> operating systems have support for file flags.

For ext2 or ext3 filesystems, mounted with extended attributes enabled,
the "d" attribute prevents dump from backing it up the object.
See chattr(1) and lsattr(1).

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