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From: gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Dump & Restore
Message-ID: <585@cisden.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 12:05:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 12:05:26 1986
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In article <262@brl-smoke.ARPA> rbj@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
hao!cisden!gmack