Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

From: Mike Maltese (mike_at_pcmedx.com)
Date: 10/30/03

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:30:24 -0800

    > What would you guys say would be the best method of dumping a live file
    > system and excluding a certain group of directories(namely /tmp and
    > /mnt)?

    Well, if /tmp is on it's own partition, you can just omit it from your dump
    routine. Otherwise, set the nodump flag. See man chflags. You will have to
    use the -h option with dump, so you may also want to take a look at the dump
    man page.

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