On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 at 9:58am, Rebecca Pakish wrote

> /-- in-db2.unt /var/www lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]
*snip*
> ? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

> What is the dumpdates file? How do I rectify this?

You are using dump -- dump only does incrementals on entire filesystems 
(i.e. entries in /etc/mtab).  But /var/www isn't its own filesystem.  To 
do subdirectories, you need to use GNUtar.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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