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Re: [PATCH] dump -U to specify dumpdates device
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:10:22AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> I propose to add -U option to dump(8), which lets the administrator
> specify the device name in /etc/dumpdates. Example usages:
> dump -a0uf /dump/data.dump -D NAME=data /data/
> dump -a0uf /dump/data-abc.dump -D data-abc /data/a* /data/b* /data/c*
>
> Here is the patch. Opinions?
I have been meaning sometime to hack dump to allow using dumpdates
with subtree or partial-volume dumps, which requires something like
this as a prereq, so yes please.
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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
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