On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution or to dump/restore, because as I understand it, with either of these methods you end up copying perhaps a metric buttload worth of unallocated free disk space.
No, that is one of the biggest advantages of dump over dd. dump knows UFS, and only copies occupied sectors and needed information. That's why it can be restored file-by-file or to a partition of a different size.
Also, in one case, one of my partitions has one directory that contains a really massive amount of stuff, and I specifically _don't_ need any of that particular stuff (in that one directory) backed up. So again, I'm looking at tar or cpio or perhaps pax. (Of course cpio is more full-featured than tar, and I don't really know anything about pax, so that leaves me with cpio.)
Directories and files can be skipped with the nodump flag.
P.S. It really is a Damn Shame[tm] that nobody ever hacked FreeBSD cpio to make it be able to copy (a) the extra file flag/mode bits and/or (b) file ACLs and/or (c) file attributes.
A quick search shows dump should support ACLs. The other stuff is also there. Try it.
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