On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:54:20PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
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> Or you could switch to GNU tar (but check the mailing list for the issues
> that brings up).
I would advise that. I really, really don't trust dump.
> You might also make sure you're up to date on dump version. A lot of good
> things have happened to it in the last several months (so I've heard).
>From the Linux Weekly News (2001/05/03):
> Trashing your filesystem with dump. It has been known for a very long
> time that using dump to back up live filesystems can result in corrupt
> backups. It turns out that, with Linux kernels through 2.4.4, dumping a
> live filesystem has the potential to corrupt the filesystem in place,
> even if the dump process has no write access.
Let me repeat again: I really, really don't trust dump.
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