[PLUG] Disk Drive Puzzlers

Don Buchholz don at truedisk.com
Thu Oct 24 18:37:36 UTC 2002


Galen Seitz wrote:
> don at truedisk.com said:
> 
>>    0          --> A [obsolete] used by the dump(8) backup command for
>>                   deciding if a given filesystem needs backup.  Just
>>                   leave it "0". 
> 
> 
> Are you certain this is obsolete for those who use the dump command?  It
> seems that my version of dump (0.4b26) still obeys this flag.
> 

You're right -- calling this column "obsolete" was presumptous.
I gave up on "-w/-W" long ago, and, I just assumed that most other
dump-based backup programs did too.






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