On Saturday 08 April 2006 22:04, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Anne Wilson schreef:
> > What does it mean by
> >
> > |   DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
> >
> > ?
> >
> > I believe Gene said something earlier about dump not being able to handle
> > subdirectories.  I didn't use tar on the photo directory because they are
> > already compressed, but does this mean that I need to set gnutar after
> > all?
>
> Yes indeed.  Dump does whole filesystems.  Some implementations
> of dump (like yours) can handle a level 0 dump of a subdirectory,
> but not incrementals of them.
> Switch to gnutar if you want to backup things smaller than a complete
> filesystem.
> Tar has nothing to do with compression.  That is a different option
> that can be applied to both dump or tar backups.

Thanks, Paul.  I guess I knew, but hadn't made the connection.  I'm learning, 
though ;-)

Anne

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