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7ae7e903 | 33 | .\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.33 2001/11/10 23:50:59 stelian Exp $ |
1227625a | 34 | .\" |
8d4197bb | 35 | .Dd __DATE__ |
1227625a | 36 | .Dt DUMP 8 |
df9ae507 | 37 | .Os "dump __VERSION__" |
1227625a SP |
38 | .Sh NAME |
39 | .Nm dump | |
ddd2ef55 | 40 | .Nd ext2 filesystem backup |
1227625a SP |
41 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
42 | .Nm dump | |
e084ba00 | 43 | .Op Fl 0123456789ackMnqSu |
1227625a SP |
44 | .Op Fl B Ar records |
45 | .Op Fl b Ar blocksize | |
46 | .Op Fl d Ar density | |
6d732772 SP |
47 | .Op Fl e Ar inode numbers |
48 | .Op Fl E Ar file | |
1227625a | 49 | .Op Fl f Ar file |
0d7af9c5 | 50 | .Op Fl F Ar script |
1227625a | 51 | .Op Fl h Ar level |
88ef261e | 52 | .Op Fl j Ar compression level |
b45f51d6 | 53 | .Op Fl L Ar label |
35b24fb7 | 54 | .Op Fl Q Ar file |
1227625a SP |
55 | .Op Fl s Ar feet |
56 | .Op Fl T Ar date | |
ce7243e0 | 57 | .Op Fl z Ar compression level |
a94ecd11 | 58 | .Ar files-to-dump |
1227625a SP |
59 | .Nm dump |
60 | .Op Fl W Li \&| Fl w | |
61 | .Pp | |
8d4197bb | 62 | .in |
1227625a SP |
63 | (The |
64 | .Bx 4.3 | |
ddd2ef55 | 65 | option syntax is implemented for backward compatibility but |
1227625a SP |
66 | is not documented here.) |
67 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
68 | .Nm Dump | |
69 | examines files | |
ddd2ef55 | 70 | on an ext2 filesystem |
1227625a SP |
71 | and determines which files |
72 | need to be backed up. These files | |
73 | are copied to the given disk, tape or other | |
74 | storage medium for safe keeping (see the | |
75 | .Fl f | |
76 | option below for doing remote backups). | |
77 | A dump that is larger than the output medium is broken into | |
78 | multiple volumes. | |
79 | On most media the size is determined by writing until an | |
4f4eee3d | 80 | end-of-media indication is returned. |
b45f51d6 | 81 | .Pp |
1227625a | 82 | On media that cannot reliably return an end-of-media indication |
4f4eee3d SP |
83 | (such as some cartridge tape drives), each volume is of a fixed size; |
84 | the actual size is determined by specifying cartridge media, or via the | |
85 | tape size, density and/or block count options below. | |
1227625a SP |
86 | By default, the same output file name is used for each volume |
87 | after prompting the operator to change media. | |
88 | .Pp | |
a94ecd11 | 89 | .Ar files-to-dump |
79e31865 | 90 | is either a mountpoint of a filesystem |
a94ecd11 SP |
91 | or a list of files and directories to be backed up as a subset of a |
92 | filesystem. | |
79e31865 SP |
93 | In the former case, either the path to a mounted filesystem |
94 | or the device of an unmounted filesystem can be used. | |
95 | In the latter case, certain restrictions are placed on the backup: | |
96 | .Fl u | |
a94ecd11 SP |
97 | is not allowed, the only dump level that is supported is |
98 | .Fl 0 | |
99 | and all the files and directories must reside on the same filesystem. | |
79e31865 | 100 | .Pp |
1227625a | 101 | The following options are supported by |
b45f51d6 | 102 | .Nm Ns : |
1227625a SP |
103 | .Bl -tag -width Ds |
104 | .It Fl 0\-9 | |
105 | Dump levels. | |
106 | A level 0, full backup, | |
107 | guarantees the entire file system is copied | |
108 | (but see also the | |
109 | .Fl h | |
110 | option below). | |
111 | A level number above 0, | |
112 | incremental backup, | |
ddd2ef55 SP |
113 | tells |
114 | .Nm dump | |
115 | to | |
1227625a | 116 | copy all files new or modified since the |
ae58c8da | 117 | last dump of a lower level. |
ddd2ef55 | 118 | The default level is 9. |
1227625a | 119 | .It Fl B Ar records |
aca7d867 | 120 | The number of 1 kB blocks per volume. |
4f4eee3d | 121 | This option overrides the end-of-media detection, and calculation |
e7850aac SP |
122 | of tape size based on length and density. If compression is on this |
123 | limits the size of the compressed output per volume. | |
b45f51d6 SP |
124 | .It Fl a |
125 | .Dq auto-size . | |
4f4eee3d SP |
126 | Bypass all tape length calculations, and write |
127 | until an end-of-media indication is returned. This works best | |
128 | for most modern tape drives, and is the default. | |
129 | Use of this option is particularly recommended when appending to an | |
130 | existing tape, or using a tape drive with hardware compression | |
131 | (where you can never be sure about the compression ratio). | |
1227625a SP |
132 | .It Fl b Ar blocksize |
133 | The number of kilobytes per dump record. | |
ddd2ef55 | 134 | Since the IO system slices all requests into chunks of MAXBSIZE |
aca7d867 | 135 | (typically 64kB), it is not possible to use a larger blocksize |
ddd2ef55 SP |
136 | without having problems later with |
137 | .Xr restore 8 . | |
138 | Therefore | |
139 | .Nm dump | |
140 | will constrain writes to MAXBSIZE. | |
65bceb9b | 141 | The default blocksize is 10. |
1227625a | 142 | .It Fl c |
b45f51d6 | 143 | Change the defaults for use with a cartridge tape drive, with a density |
4f4eee3d SP |
144 | of 8000 bpi, and a length of 1700 feet. Specifying a cartridge drive |
145 | overrides the end-of-media detection. | |
6d732772 | 146 | .It Fl e Ar inodes |
20c345aa | 147 | Exclude |
6d732772 SP |
148 | .Ar inodes |
149 | from the dump. The | |
150 | .Ar inodes | |
151 | parameter is a comma separated list of inode numbers (you can use | |
20c345aa SP |
152 | .Ar stat |
153 | to find the inode number for a file or directory). | |
6d732772 SP |
154 | .It Fl E Ar file |
155 | Read list of inodes to be excluded from the dump from the text file | |
156 | .Ar file . | |
157 | The file | |
158 | .Ar file | |
159 | should be an ordinary file containing inode numbers separated by | |
160 | newlines. | |
b45f51d6 SP |
161 | .It Fl h Ar level |
162 | Honor the user | |
163 | .Dq nodump | |
164 | flag | |
165 | .Dp Dv UF_NODUMP | |
166 | only for dumps at or above the given | |
167 | .Ar level . | |
168 | The default honor level is 1, | |
169 | so that incremental backups omit such files | |
170 | but full backups retain them. | |
1227625a SP |
171 | .It Fl d Ar density |
172 | Set tape density to | |
173 | .Ar density . | |
4f4eee3d SP |
174 | The default is 1600BPI. Specifying a tape density overrides the |
175 | end-of-media detection. | |
1227625a SP |
176 | .It Fl f Ar file |
177 | Write the backup to | |
178 | .Ar file ; | |
179 | .Ar file | |
180 | may be a special device file | |
181 | like | |
ddd2ef55 | 182 | .Pa /dev/st0 |
1227625a SP |
183 | (a tape drive), |
184 | .Pa /dev/rsd1c | |
b45f51d6 | 185 | (a floppy disk drive), |
1227625a SP |
186 | an ordinary file, |
187 | or | |
188 | .Ql Fl | |
189 | (the standard output). | |
190 | Multiple file names may be given as a single argument separated by commas. | |
191 | Each file will be used for one dump volume in the order listed; | |
192 | if the dump requires more volumes than the number of names given, | |
193 | the last file name will used for all remaining volumes after prompting | |
194 | for media changes. | |
195 | If the name of the file is of the form | |
ddd2ef55 | 196 | .Dq host:file |
1227625a | 197 | or |
ddd2ef55 | 198 | .Dq user@host:file |
b45f51d6 | 199 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
200 | writes to the named file on the remote host using |
201 | .Xr rmt 8 . | |
b45f51d6 SP |
202 | The default path name of the remote |
203 | .Xr rmt 8 | |
204 | program is | |
205 | .\" rmt path, is the path on the remote host | |
206 | .Pa /etc/rmt ; | |
207 | this can be overridden by the environment variable | |
208 | .Ev RMT . | |
0d7af9c5 | 209 | .It Fl F Ar script |
365a7c7c SP |
210 | Run script at the end of each tape. The device name and the |
211 | current volume number are passed on the command line. | |
212 | The script must return 0 if | |
ae81b200 SP |
213 | .Nm |
214 | should continue without asking the user to change the tape, 1 if | |
215 | .Nm | |
c534413c | 216 | should continue but ask the user to change the tape. |
ae81b200 SP |
217 | Any other exit code will cause |
218 | .Nm | |
219 | to abort. | |
220 | For security reasons, | |
221 | .Nm | |
222 | reverts back to the real user ID and the real group ID before | |
223 | running the script. | |
88ef261e SP |
224 | .It Fl j Ar compression level |
225 | Compress every block to be written on the tape using bzlib library. This | |
226 | option will work only when dumping to a file or pipe or, when dumping | |
227 | to a tape drive, if the tape drive is capable of writing variable | |
228 | length blocks. You will need at least the 0.4b24 version of restore in | |
229 | order to extract compressed tapes. Tapes written using compression will | |
230 | not be compatible with the BSD tape format. The (optional) parameter | |
231 | specifies the compression level bzlib will use. The default compression | |
232 | level is 2. | |
b45f51d6 SP |
233 | .It Fl k |
234 | Use Kerberos authentication to talk to remote tape servers. (Only | |
235 | available if this option was enabled when | |
236 | .Nm | |
237 | was compiled.) | |
238 | .It Fl L Ar label | |
239 | The user-supplied text string | |
240 | .Ar label | |
241 | is placed into the dump header, where tools like | |
242 | .Xr restore 8 | |
243 | and | |
244 | .Xr file 1 | |
245 | can access it. | |
246 | Note that this label is limited | |
247 | to be at most LBLSIZE (currently 16) characters, which must include | |
248 | the terminating | |
249 | .Ql \e0 . | |
dc7cb1e2 SP |
250 | .It Fl M |
251 | Enable the multi-volume feature. The name specified with | |
252 | .Fl f | |
253 | is treated as a prefix and | |
254 | .Nm | |
255 | writes in sequence to <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. This can be | |
256 | useful when dumping to files on an ext2 partition, in order to bypass | |
257 | the 2GB file size limitation. | |
1227625a SP |
258 | .It Fl n |
259 | Whenever | |
b45f51d6 | 260 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
261 | requires operator attention, |
262 | notify all operators in the group | |
263 | .Dq operator | |
264 | by means similar to a | |
265 | .Xr wall 1 . | |
e084ba00 SP |
266 | .It Fl q |
267 | Make | |
268 | .Nm | |
269 | abort immediately whenever operator attention is required, | |
270 | without prompting in case of write errors, tape changes etc. | |
35b24fb7 SP |
271 | .It Fl Q Ar file |
272 | Enable the Quick File Access support. Tape positions for each | |
273 | inode are stored into the file | |
274 | .Ar file | |
275 | which is used by restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename) | |
276 | to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently working | |
277 | on. This saves hours when restoring single files from large backups, | |
278 | saves the tapes and the drive's head. | |
b8f7cbe6 SP |
279 | .Pp |
280 | It is recommended to set up the st driver to return logical tape | |
281 | positions rather than physical before calling dump/restore with | |
282 | parameter Q. Since not all tape devices support physical tape | |
283 | positions those tape devices return an error during dump/restore when | |
284 | the st driver is set to the default physical setting. | |
285 | Please see the st man page, option MTSETDRVBUFFER, or the mt man | |
286 | page, on how to set the driver to return logical tape positions. | |
287 | .Pp | |
288 | Before calling restore with parameter Q, always make sure the st | |
289 | driver is set to return the same type of tape position used during the | |
290 | call to dump. Otherwise restore may be confused. | |
1227625a | 291 | .It Fl s Ar feet |
4f4eee3d | 292 | Attempt to calculate the amount of tape needed at a particular density. |
1227625a | 293 | If this amount is exceeded, |
b45f51d6 | 294 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
295 | prompts for a new tape. |
296 | It is recommended to be a bit conservative on this option. | |
4f4eee3d SP |
297 | The default tape length is 2300 feet. Specifying the tape size |
298 | overrides end-of-media detection. | |
1227625a | 299 | .ne 1i |
144a6db1 SP |
300 | .It Fl S |
301 | Size estimate. Determine the amount of space | |
302 | that is needed to perform the dump without | |
303 | actually doing it, and display the estimated | |
2e682895 | 304 | number of bytes it will take. This is useful |
144a6db1 SP |
305 | with incremental dumps to determine how many |
306 | volumes of media will be needed. | |
1227625a SP |
307 | .It Fl T Ar date |
308 | Use the specified date as the starting time for the dump | |
309 | instead of the time determined from looking in | |
8d4197bb | 310 | .Pa __DUMPDATES__ . |
ddd2ef55 SP |
311 | The format of |
312 | .Ar date | |
313 | is the same as that of | |
1227625a SP |
314 | .Xr ctime 3 . |
315 | This option is useful for automated dump scripts that wish to | |
316 | dump over a specific period of time. | |
317 | The | |
318 | .Fl T | |
319 | option is mutually exclusive from the | |
320 | .Fl u | |
321 | option. | |
322 | .It Fl u | |
323 | Update the file | |
8d4197bb | 324 | .Pa __DUMPDATES__ |
1227625a SP |
325 | after a successful dump. |
326 | The format of | |
8d4197bb | 327 | .Pa __DUMPDATES__ |
1227625a SP |
328 | is readable by people, consisting of one |
329 | free format record per line: | |
330 | filesystem name, | |
331 | increment level | |
332 | and | |
333 | .Xr ctime 3 | |
334 | format dump date. | |
335 | There may be only one entry per filesystem at each level. | |
336 | The file | |
8d4197bb | 337 | .Pa __DUMPDATES__ |
1227625a SP |
338 | may be edited to change any of the fields, |
339 | if necessary. | |
340 | .It Fl W | |
341 | .Nm Dump | |
342 | tells the operator what file systems need to be dumped. | |
343 | This information is gleaned from the files | |
8d4197bb | 344 | .Pa __DUMPDATES__ |
1227625a SP |
345 | and |
346 | .Pa /etc/fstab . | |
347 | The | |
348 | .Fl W | |
349 | option causes | |
b45f51d6 | 350 | .Nm |
51b01afe | 351 | to print out, for all file systems in |
8d4197bb | 352 | .Pa __DUMPDATES__ , |
51b01afe SP |
353 | and regognized file systems in |
354 | .Pa /etc/fstab . | |
1227625a | 355 | the most recent dump date and level, |
51b01afe | 356 | and highlights those that should be dumped. |
1227625a SP |
357 | If the |
358 | .Fl W | |
359 | option is set, all other options are ignored, and | |
b45f51d6 | 360 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
361 | exits immediately. |
362 | .It Fl w | |
ddd2ef55 SP |
363 | Is like |
364 | .Fl W , | |
51b01afe SP |
365 | but prints only recognized filesystems in |
366 | .Pa /etc/fstab | |
367 | which need to be dumped. | |
ce7243e0 | 368 | .It Fl z Ar compression level |
52ed7d6e | 369 | Compress every block to be written on the tape using zlib library. This |
2b747532 SP |
370 | option will work only when dumping to a file or pipe or, when dumping |
371 | to a tape drive, if the tape drive is capable of writing variable | |
52ed7d6e SP |
372 | length blocks. You will need at least the 0.4b22 version of restore in |
373 | order to extract compressed tapes. Tapes written using compression will | |
ce7243e0 SP |
374 | not be compatible with the BSD tape format. The (optional) parameter |
375 | specifies the compression level zlib will use. The default compression | |
376 | level is 2. | |
1227625a SP |
377 | .El |
378 | .Pp | |
379 | .Nm Dump | |
380 | requires operator intervention on these conditions: | |
381 | end of tape, | |
382 | end of dump, | |
383 | tape write error, | |
384 | tape open error or | |
ddd2ef55 | 385 | disk read error (if there is more than a threshold of 32). |
1227625a SP |
386 | In addition to alerting all operators implied by the |
387 | .Fl n | |
388 | key, | |
b45f51d6 | 389 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
390 | interacts with the operator on |
391 | .Em dump's | |
392 | control terminal at times when | |
b45f51d6 | 393 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
394 | can no longer proceed, |
395 | or if something is grossly wrong. | |
396 | All questions | |
b45f51d6 | 397 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
398 | poses |
399 | .Em must | |
400 | be answered by typing | |
401 | .Dq yes | |
402 | or | |
403 | .Dq no , | |
404 | appropriately. | |
405 | .Pp | |
406 | Since making a dump involves a lot of time and effort for full dumps, | |
b45f51d6 | 407 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
408 | checkpoints itself at the start of each tape volume. |
409 | If writing that volume fails for some reason, | |
b45f51d6 | 410 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
411 | will, |
412 | with operator permission, | |
413 | restart itself from the checkpoint | |
414 | after the old tape has been rewound and removed, | |
415 | and a new tape has been mounted. | |
416 | .Pp | |
417 | .Nm Dump | |
418 | tells the operator what is going on at periodic intervals, | |
419 | including usually low estimates of the number of blocks to write, | |
420 | the number of tapes it will take, the time to completion, and | |
421 | the time to the tape change. | |
422 | The output is verbose, | |
423 | so that others know that the terminal | |
424 | controlling | |
b45f51d6 | 425 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
426 | is busy, |
427 | and will be for some time. | |
428 | .Pp | |
429 | In the event of a catastrophic disk event, the time required | |
430 | to restore all the necessary backup tapes or files to disk | |
431 | can be kept to a minimum by staggering the incremental dumps. | |
432 | An efficient method of staggering incremental dumps | |
433 | to minimize the number of tapes follows: | |
434 | .Bl -bullet -offset indent | |
435 | .It | |
436 | Always start with a level 0 backup, for example: | |
437 | .Bd -literal -offset indent | |
8d4197bb | 438 | /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /usr/src |
1227625a SP |
439 | .Ed |
440 | .Pp | |
441 | This should be done at set intervals, say once a month or once every two months, | |
442 | and on a set of fresh tapes that is saved forever. | |
443 | .It | |
444 | After a level 0, dumps of active file | |
445 | systems are taken on a daily basis, | |
446 | using a modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm, | |
447 | with this sequence of dump levels: | |
448 | .Bd -literal -offset indent | |
449 | 3 2 5 4 7 6 9 8 9 9 ... | |
450 | .Ed | |
451 | .Pp | |
452 | For the daily dumps, it should be possible to use a fixed number of tapes | |
453 | for each day, used on a weekly basis. | |
454 | Each week, a level 1 dump is taken, and | |
455 | the daily Hanoi sequence repeats beginning with 3. | |
456 | For weekly dumps, another fixed set of tapes per dumped file system is | |
457 | used, also on a cyclical basis. | |
458 | .El | |
459 | .Pp | |
460 | After several months or so, the daily and weekly tapes should get | |
461 | rotated out of the dump cycle and fresh tapes brought in. | |
b45f51d6 SP |
462 | .Sh ENVIRONMENT |
463 | .Bl -tag -width Fl | |
464 | .It Ev TAPE | |
465 | If no -f option was specified, | |
466 | .Nm | |
467 | will use the device specified via | |
468 | .Ev TAPE | |
469 | as the dump device. | |
470 | .Ev TAPE | |
471 | may be of the form | |
472 | .Qq tapename , | |
473 | .Qq host:tapename , | |
474 | or | |
475 | .Qq user@host:tapename . | |
476 | .It Ev RMT | |
477 | The environment variable | |
478 | .Ev RMT | |
479 | will be used to determine the pathname of the remote | |
480 | .Xr rmt 8 | |
481 | program. | |
0c62667d SP |
482 | .It Ev RSH |
483 | .Nm Dump | |
484 | uses the contents of this variable to determine the name of the | |
485 | remote shell command to use when doing remote backups (rsh, ssh etc.). | |
486 | If this variable is not set, | |
487 | .Xr rcmd 3 | |
488 | will be used, but only root will be able to do remote backups. | |
7ae7e903 | 489 | .El |
1227625a | 490 | .Sh FILES |
8d4197bb | 491 | .Bl -tag -width __DUMPDATES__ -compact |
ddd2ef55 | 492 | .It Pa /dev/st0 |
1227625a | 493 | default tape unit to dump to |
8d4197bb | 494 | .It Pa __DUMPDATES__ |
1227625a SP |
495 | dump date records |
496 | .It Pa /etc/fstab | |
497 | dump table: file systems and frequency | |
498 | .It Pa /etc/group | |
499 | to find group | |
500 | .Em operator | |
501 | .El | |
502 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
b45f51d6 | 503 | .Xr fstab 5 , |
1227625a | 504 | .Xr restore 8 , |
b45f51d6 | 505 | .Xr rmt 8 |
1227625a SP |
506 | .Sh DIAGNOSTICS |
507 | Many, and verbose. | |
508 | .Pp | |
ddd2ef55 SP |
509 | .Nm Dump |
510 | exits with zero status on success. | |
1227625a SP |
511 | Startup errors are indicated with an exit code of 1; |
512 | abnormal termination is indicated with an exit code of 3. | |
513 | .Sh BUGS | |
ddd2ef55 SP |
514 | It might be considered a bug that this version of dump can only handle ext2 |
515 | filesystems. Specifically, it does not work with FAT filesystems. | |
516 | .Pp | |
517 | Fewer than 32 read errors on the filesystem are ignored. If noticing | |
518 | read errors is important, the output from dump can be parsed to look for lines | |
519 | that contain the text 'read error'. | |
1227625a SP |
520 | .Pp |
521 | Each reel requires a new process, so parent processes for | |
522 | reels already written just hang around until the entire tape | |
523 | is written. | |
524 | .Pp | |
e7850aac SP |
525 | The estimated number of tapes is not correct if compression is on. |
526 | .Pp | |
1227625a | 527 | It would be nice if |
b45f51d6 | 528 | .Nm |
1227625a SP |
529 | knew about the dump sequence, |
530 | kept track of the tapes scribbled on, | |
531 | told the operator which tape to mount when, | |
532 | and provided more assistance | |
533 | for the operator running | |
534 | .Xr restore . | |
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535 | .Pp |
536 | .Nm Dump | |
537 | cannot do remote backups without being run as root, due to its | |
0c62667d | 538 | security history. |
b45f51d6 | 539 | Presently, it works if you set it setuid (like it used to be), but this |
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540 | might constitute a security risk. Note that you can set RSH to use |
541 | a remote shell program instead. | |
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542 | .Sh AUTHOR |
543 | The | |
544 | .Nm dump/restore | |
7422942f | 545 | backup suite was ported to Linux's Second Extended File System |
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546 | by Remy Card <card@Linux.EU.Org>. He maintained the initial versions |
547 | of dump (up and including 0.4b4, released in january 1997). | |
548 | .Pp | |
549 | Starting with 0.4b5, the new maintainer is Stelian Pop | |
550 | .br | |
109e9e1d | 551 | <pop@noos.fr>. |
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552 | .Sh AVAILABILITY |
553 | The | |
554 | .Nm dump/restore | |
7422942f | 555 | backup suite is available from |
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556 | .br |
557 | http://dump.sourceforge.net | |
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558 | .Sh HISTORY |
559 | A | |
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560 | .Nm |
561 | command appeared in | |
562 | .At v6 . |