> So, how would one create a backup of a system that has attributes set, so > that under a catastrphic recovery (i.e. build from scratch on a new disk) > that you get back exactly to where it was prior to the failure? Sounds to > me like the use of said bit is just plain dangerous, as the only means of > recovering those settings is to keep an accurate list of the settings > seperately from the actual filesystem and the backups/archives of said > filesystem. Truely sad, as there is good value to what those bit could > provide if they were more broadly supported. > > - Marc
You can use the dd command whenever a filesystem backup is necessary. It can't perform incremental backups like the dump command, but it does preserve all attributes, even the immutable attr. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
