On 2008/01/08 10:29, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > However, if you have one directory you wish to put on tape, e.g. as an > archive of old OS .iso's (in case the origionals get scratched), as far > as I know, you can't use dump (which is only for entire filesystems).
dump(8) manual says:
files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files
and directories on a single filesystem to be backed up as a subset of the
filesystem.
