On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:42:59PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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. >
Doh! Sorry about that there chief; I missed it by "this" much. Doug.
