Dump & Restore

[Gregg Mackenzie]

In article <262 at brl-smoke.ARPA> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (root) writes:
>> Remember that dump will use the ctime, not the mtime, when deciding
>> what files to dump.  There is no system call to backdate the ctime on a
>> mounted file system.
>
>No, but you *can* postdate the dump! Edit /etc/dumpdates. The file
>can be edited by hand as it it all ascii. Make sure you are *completely*
>sure that you want to do this however.

And if you're not *completely* sure you want to do this, just copy
/etc/dumpdates to /etc/dumpdates.old or someplace so you can get it
back if you need to.

Gregg Mackenzie
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