Let the user give the dumpdates path as an argument to dump (-D)

[dump.git] / dump / dump.8.in

diff --git a/dump/dump.8.in b/dump/dump.8.in
index 7bdf735056a5c72931897846bf176343895d83eb..b44970148d47214832d8053fbcc36314f49704bb 100644 (file)
--- 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 1.46 2002/11/12 13:05:31 stelian Exp $
+.\"    $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.48 2003/01/21 10:42:27 stelian Exp $
 .\"
 .TH DUMP 8 "version __VERSION__ of __DATE__" BSD "System management commands"
 .SH NAME
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ dump \- ext2/3 filesystem backup
 [\fB\-B \fIrecords\fR]
 [\fB\-b \fIblocksize\fR]
 [\fB\-d \fIdensity\fR]
+[\fB\-D \fIfile\fR]
 [\fB\-e \fIinode numbers\fR]
 [\fB\-E \fIfile\fR]
 [\fB\-f \fIfile\fR]
@@ -146,6 +147,11 @@ Set tape density to
 The default is 1600BPI. Specifying a tape density overrides the end-of-media
 detection.
 .TP
+.BI \-D " file"
+Set the path name of the file storing the information about the previous 
+full and incremental dumps. The default location is
+.IR __DUMPDATES__ .
+.TP
 .BI \-e " inodes"
 Exclude 
 .I inodes
@@ -224,6 +230,8 @@ is useful when running
 .B dump
 on an active filesystem where read errors simply indicate an inconsistency 
 between the mapping and dumping passes.
+.IP
+A value of 0 means that all read errors will be ignored.
 .TP
 .BI \-j "compression level"
 Compress every block to be written on the tape using bzlib library. This option