>... I assume this means that xfsdump only wants to
>dump full partitions, is there any way around this? ...
In general, *dump programs only want to work with the entire file system.
If you want finer control than that, you'll have to switch to GNU tar.
>I suppose an alternative
>is to backup the whole partition in one batch and use an exclude list for
>the swapfiles but i'd much prefer to run each directory seperately...
The also don't typically provide exclude lists. Yet another reason to
switch to GNU tar in your case.
>.michael lea
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
