http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-solaris-unix-linux-dump-exclude-directories-files/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-solaris-unix-linux-dump-exclude-directories-files/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:49:14 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=4029 I'm using dump command to backup file systems to tape and remote server. However, I'm not able to find any option that will allow me to exclude files or directories from backup. How do I force UNIX / Linux / FreeBSD dump command to exclude selected files (such as /var/cache or /usr/basejails) which I don't want to backup?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-solaris-unix-linux-dump-exclude-directories-files/feed/ 3