Dump

[Matthew Seaman]

Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> I've been testing backups with dump, works well BUT
> -L does not work. For example
> 
> dump -0 -a -u -L -f /mnt/dump.home.full /dev/ad0s2d

I believe that you need to tell dump the mount point of the file system in
order for it to create a snapshot, rather than the device file for the
partition. (ie. snapshotting only makes sense on a mounted read-write
filesystem).

Also, if you're dumping a snapshotted FS to a local file, then bump up the
cachesize to improve performance a lot.  Add '-C 32' to your command-line.

> How does one set the nodump flag on a filesystem/directory

chflags(1).  Note that nodump is not honoured by default for a level 0
dump.  Add '-h 0' to the dump command line to make that happen.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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