Also Sprach Gene Heskett:

> On Monday 02 September 2002 21:32, Dale Clapperton (lists) wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >Potentially stupid question..  Does AMANDA support backing up only
> > a certain directory on a host (ie /var/log for example) or only
> > whole partitions (ie /var) ??
>
> Sure, but you have to use tar.
>

Some versions of dump such as IRIX/Linux xfsdump allow directory
backups which are a subset of the whole partition, but they can only do
lev 0's, no incrementals.

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