>> Original Message >> From: ToddAndMargo >> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 23:28 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: I asked Red Hat for two feature in xfsdump >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258189 >> >> 1) back up a directory that is not a mount point >> >> 2) compression >> On 08/29/2015 09:05 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > 1 is out of scope for what the tool is meant to do I do it all the time, well, when I was on ext4, with dump. Worked great. > > 2 is not a bad idea but you would need to also get the upstream developers to buy into the idea. I will go for one out of two. My favorite would be the compression.