>>    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.