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 cbb3177a9d46d5e0dcb375e882eb64811b3735fa..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.
 .\"
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"

-.\"    $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.47 2003/01/10 10:31:10 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
 .\"
 .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\-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]
 [\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
 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
 .BI \-e " inodes"
 Exclude 
 .I inodes