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Re: tricking dump to not dump files

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From: Scott S. Bertilson
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:50
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  Well, there *is* a way, but it is really sleazy.  It turns
out that NeXT has added a hack to "dump" which causes it to
look at the list of swap files in "/etc/swaptab" and leave
them out of the backup.  I just tested it to be sure and
found that I could just tack my list of files to be excluded
onto the end of the file (no special formatting needed) and
they were left off the backup.  I suppose it could be rather
unfortunate if that list of files is still there when you
boot and "mach_swapon" runs - I don't know whether it will
try to use them without the extra sugar.  Perhaps if you use
this, you should add a little hack to "/etc/rc" to guarantee
that the gunk is eliminated before "mach_swapon" runs.
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