From: Stelian P. <st...@po...> - 2007-11-30 21:05:26
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Le vendredi 30 novembre 2007 à 10:07 -0800, Kenneth Porter a écrit : > --On Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:29 PM +0100 Stelian Pop > <st...@po...> wrote: > > > If the question is whether it is possible to exclude a file in order to > > not be picked by later dump, the answer is yes, either by using -e > > command line flag or by setting the nodump flag on the file. > > I figured a clever pipeline could write a new dump file with the file from > the old one excluded. Can one feed the output of restore into dump to > create a new dump file? No, this is not possible. Dump expects an ext3 filesystem not a pipe as its input. > On a related note, it would be cool if one could mount a dump file > read-only, much in the way one can mount an ISO9660 image. I suppose this could be done. Not easy though. > If the result > could be operated on using the same ext3 library used by dump, This looks even more complicated than the previous item. > that could > be a way to accomplish this. Yeah. That's the cool thing with computers: there is always a way to accomplish almost everything :) -- Stelian Pop <st...@po...> |