On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:42:59PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
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> On 2008/01/08 10:29, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > However, if you have one directory you wish to put on tape, e.g. as an
> > archive of old OS .iso's (in case the origionals get scratched), as far
> > as I know, you can't use dump (which is only for entire filesystems).
> 
> dump(8) manual says:
> 
>      files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files
>      and directories on a single filesystem to be backed up as a subset of the
>      filesystem.
> 

Doh!  Sorry about that there chief;  I missed it by "this" much.

Doug.