From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:54:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the 'M' flag.
X-Git-Tag: release_0_4b12~6
X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc7cb1e25473e32bb30569506c8eaabb7b712218;p=dump.git

Document the 'M' flag.
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diff --git a/dump/dump.8.in b/dump/dump.8.in
index bb75033..694d571 100644
--- a/dump/dump.8.in
+++ b/dump/dump.8.in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: dump.8.in,v 1.5 1999/11/22 19:08:50 tiniou Exp $
+.\"	$Id: dump.8.in,v 1.6 1999/12/05 18:54:23 tiniou Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd __DATE__
 .Dt DUMP 8
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Nd ext2 filesystem backup
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm dump
-.Op Fl 0123456789acknSu
+.Op Fl 0123456789ackMnSu
 .Op Fl B Ar records
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl d Ar density
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 .Op Fl T Ar date
 .Ar filesystem
 .Nm dump
-.Op Fl 0123456789acknSu
+.Op Fl 0123456789ackMnSu
 .Op Fl B Ar records
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl d Ar density
@@ -201,6 +201,14 @@ Note that this label is limited
 to be at most LBLSIZE (currently 16) characters, which must include
 the terminating
 .Ql \e0 .
+.It Fl M
+Enable the multi-volume feature. The name specified with 
+.Fl f 
+is treated as a prefix and 
+.Nm
+writes in sequence to <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. This can be
+useful when dumping to files on an ext2 partition, in order to bypass
+the 2GB file size limitation.
 .It Fl n
 Whenever
 .Nm
diff --git a/restore/restore.8.in b/restore/restore.8.in
index c25c8c7..4395466 100644
--- a/restore/restore.8.in
+++ b/restore/restore.8.in
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: restore.8.in,v 1.4 1999/10/30 22:55:51 tiniou Exp $
+.\"	$Id: restore.8.in,v 1.5 1999/12/05 18:54:25 tiniou Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd __DATE__
 .Dt RESTORE 8
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm restore
 .Fl C
-.Op Fl ckvy
+.Op Fl ckMvy
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl D Ar filesystem
 .Op Fl f Ar file
@@ -48,28 +48,28 @@
 .Op Fl T Ar directory
 .Nm restore
 .Fl i
-.Op Fl chkmNuvy
+.Op Fl chkmMNuvy
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl s Ar fileno
 .Op Fl T Ar directory
 .Nm restore
 .Fl R
-.Op Fl ckNuvy
+.Op Fl ckMNuvy
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl s Ar fileno
 .Op Fl T Ar directory
 .Nm restore
 .Fl r
-.Op Fl ckNuvy
+.Op Fl ckMNuvy
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl s Ar fileno
 .Op Fl T Ar directory
 .Nm restore
 .Fl t
-.Op Fl chkNuvy
+.Op Fl chkMNuvy
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl s Ar fileno
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 .Op file ...
 .Nm restore
 .Fl x
-.Op Fl chkmNuvy
+.Op Fl chkmMNuvy
 .Op Fl b Ar blocksize
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl s Ar fileno
@@ -341,11 +341,21 @@ Extract by inode numbers rather than by file name.
 This is useful if only a few files are being extracted,
 and one wants to avoid regenerating the complete pathname
 to the file.
+.It Fl M
+Enables the multi-volume feature (for reading dumps made using
+the 
+.Fl M
+option of dump). The name specified with
+.Fl f
+is treated as a prefix and
+.Nm
+tries to read in sequence from <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. 
 .It Fl N
 The
 .Fl N
 flag causes
-.Nm restore to only print file names. Files are not extracted.
+.Nm
+to only print file names. Files are not extracted.
 .It Fl s Ar fileno
 Read from the specified
 .Ar fileno