From 4c7a7f343c6cb0c5e6def6d28649cea65ff2907e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 02:21:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] man-page-vos-dump-flags-20090526 LICENSE BSD Add documentation of the -clone and -omitdirs flags to vos dump. --- doc/man-pages/pod1/vos_dump.pod | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man-pages/pod1/vos_dump.pod b/doc/man-pages/pod1/vos_dump.pod index 2a25eeae1e..5dce82640a 100644 --- a/doc/man-pages/pod1/vos_dump.pod +++ b/doc/man-pages/pod1/vos_dump.pod @@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ vos_dump - Converts a volume into ASCII format and writes it to a file B S<<< B<-id> > >>> S<<< [B<-time> >] >>> S<<< [B<-file> >] >>> S<<< [B<-server> >] >>> - S<<< [B<-partition> >] >>> S<<< [B<-cell> >] >>> - [B<-noauth>] [B<-localauth>] [B<-verbose>] [B<-help>] + S<<< [B<-partition> >] >>> [B<-clone>] [B<-omitdirs>] + S<<< [B<-cell> >] >>> [B<-noauth>] [B<-localauth>] + [B<-verbose>] [B<-help>] B S<<< B<-i> > >>> S<<< [B<-t> >] >>> S<<< [B<-f> >] >>> S<<< [B<-s> >] >>> S<<< [B<-p> >] >>> - S<<< [B<-c> >] >>> [B<-n>] [B<-l>] [B<-v>] [B<-h>] + [B<-cl>] [B<-o>] S<<< [B<-ce> >] >>> [B<-n>] [B<-l>] + [B<-v>] [B<-h>] =for html @@ -130,6 +132,23 @@ the B<-partition> argument along with this one. Specifies the partition on which the volume resides. Provide the B<-server> argument along with this one. +=item B<-clone> + +Normally, B locks the volume and dumps it, which blocks writes +to the volume while the dump is in progress. If this flag is given, B will instead clone the volume first (similar to what B +would do) and then dumps the clone. This can significantly decrease the +amount of time the volume is kept locked for dumps of large volumes. + +=item B<-omitdirs> + +By default, B includes all directory objects in an incremental +dump whether they've been changed or not. If this option is given, +unchanged directories will be omitted. This will reduce the size of the +dump and not cause problems if the incremental is restored, as expected, +on top of a volume containing the correct directory structure (such as one +created by restoring previous full and incremental dumps). + =item B<-cell> Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument