From: Stelian P. <st...@po...> - 2002-07-25 09:35:41
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Olivier TISSIER wrote: > Another question is: how can I backup several directories with dump? Can I creat a file with the list of the directories I want to dump? and give it as a parameter to dump? If all the directories are on the same filesystem you can do: dump 0f /dev/tape /home/1 /home/2 /home/3 If the directories are on different filesystems you will need to do something like: $ cat > /root/fs-to-backup /home/1 /home/2 /home/3 ^D $ for i in `cat /root/fs-to-backup`; do dump 0f /dev/tape $i done Where of course /dev/tape is the non rewinding tape device, like /dev/nst0 for example. Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <st...@po...> |