.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.32 2001/08/16 15:24:21 stelian Exp $
+.\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.34 2001/11/11 00:06:39 stelian Exp $
.\"
.Dd __DATE__
.Dt DUMP 8
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Op Fl F Ar script
.Op Fl h Ar level
+.Op Fl I Ar nr errors
.Op Fl j Ar compression level
.Op Fl L Ar label
.Op Fl Q Ar file
.Nm
reverts back to the real user ID and the real group ID before
running the script.
+.It Fl I Ar nr errors
+By default,
+.Nm
+will ignore the first 32 read errors on the file
+system before asking for operator intervention. You can change this
+using this flag to any value. This is useful when running
+.Nm
+on an active filesystem where read errors simply indicate an
+inconsistency between the mapping and dumping passes.
.It Fl j Ar compression level
Compress every block to be written on the tape using bzlib library. This
option will work only when dumping to a file or pipe or, when dumping
end of dump,
tape write error,
tape open error or
-disk read error (if there is more than a threshold of 32).
+disk read error (if there is more than a threshold of nr errors).
In addition to alerting all operators implied by the
.Fl n
key,
If this variable is not set,
.Xr rcmd 3
will be used, but only root will be able to do remote backups.
+.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width __DUMPDATES__ -compact
.It Pa /dev/st0
It might be considered a bug that this version of dump can only handle ext2
filesystems. Specifically, it does not work with FAT filesystems.
.Pp
-Fewer than 32 read errors on the filesystem are ignored. If noticing
+Fewer than 32 read errors (change this with -I)
+on the filesystem are ignored. If noticing
read errors is important, the output from dump can be parsed to look for lines
that contain the text 'read error'.
.Pp