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authordillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-09 03:06:56 +0000
committerdillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-09 03:06:56 +0000
commit2f52ad74cdfcaa675125b6cdb900985198e1a264 (patch)
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Add manual page and usage for dump -D (supplied by Dima Dorfman) (will also
be MFC'd) Submitted by: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/dump/dump.829
-rw-r--r--sbin/dump/main.c5
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dump/dump.8 b/sbin/dump/dump.8
index 855cae8..b198598 100644
--- a/sbin/dump/dump.8
+++ b/sbin/dump/dump.8
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
.Op Fl 0123456789acknu
.Op Fl B Ar records
.Op Fl b Ar blocksize
+.Op Fl D Ar dumpdates
.Op Fl d Ar density
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Op Fl h Ar level
@@ -129,6 +130,10 @@ only for dumps at or above the given
The default honor level is 1,
so that incremental backups omit such files
but full backups retain them.
+.It Fl D Ar dumpdates
+Specify an alternate path to the dumpdates file.
+The default is
+.Pa /etc/dumpdates .
.It Fl d Ar density
Set tape density to
.Ar density .
@@ -190,7 +195,7 @@ The default tape length is 2300 feet.
.It Fl T Ar date
Use the specified date as the starting time for the dump
instead of the time determined from looking in
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates .
+the dumpdates file.
The format of date is the same as that of
.Xr ctime 3 .
This option is useful for automated dump scripts that wish to
@@ -201,11 +206,10 @@ option is mutually exclusive from the
.Fl u
option.
.It Fl u
-Update the file
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates
+Update the dumpdates file
after a successful dump.
The format of
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates
+the dumpdates file
is readable by people, consisting of one
free format record per line:
filesystem name,
@@ -215,14 +219,19 @@ and
format dump date.
There may be only one entry per filesystem at each level.
The file
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates
+dumpdates file
may be edited to change any of the fields,
if necessary.
+The default path for the dumpdates file is
+.Pa /etc/dumpdates ,
+but the
+.Fl D
+option may be used to change it.
.It Fl W
.Nm Dump
tells the operator what file systems need to be dumped.
This information is gleaned from the files
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates
+dumpdates file
and
.Pa /etc/fstab .
The
@@ -230,7 +239,7 @@ The
option causes
.Nm
to print out, for each file system in
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates
+the dumpdates file
the most recent dump date and level,
and highlights those file systems that should be dumped.
If the
@@ -353,6 +362,10 @@ program.
default tape unit to dump to
.It Pa /etc/dumpdates
dump date records
+(this can be changed;
+see the
+.Fl D
+option)
.It Pa /etc/fstab
dump table: file systems and frequency
.It Pa /etc/group
@@ -390,7 +403,7 @@ or
.Fl w
options does not report filesystems that have never been recorded
in
-.Pa /etc/dumpdates ,
+the dumpdates file,
even if listed in
.Pa /etc/fstab .
.Pp
diff --git a/sbin/dump/main.c b/sbin/dump/main.c
index 3e8ca47..cc19b42 100644
--- a/sbin/dump/main.c
+++ b/sbin/dump/main.c
@@ -493,8 +493,9 @@ usage()
#ifdef KERBEROS
"k"
#endif
- "nu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-d density] [-f file]\n"
- " [-h level] [-s feet] [-T date] filesystem\n"
+ "nu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-D dumpdates]\n"
+ " [-d density] [-f file ] [-h level] [-s feet] "
+ "[-T date] filesystem\n"
" dump [-W | -w]\n");
exit(X_STARTUP);
}
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