>Its interesting that I was unaware of this dilema ( the possible failure >of DUMP ) until it was posted on this list
It's mentioned in the second paragraph of Sun's ufsdump man page. Despite all the FUD that's been parroted about dump over the years, by and large it's worked just fine for most people. Either the Linux kernel and/or the Linux incarnation of dump is apparently way broken, and Linus (or whoever) seems to be too lazy or stubborn to fix it. Tar is simply not a general-purpose replacement for something that backs up a whole filesystem without trashing the read dates on files - and in much less time.
