On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 13:35 -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Steve Lindemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > curious... I've been using dump for decades (unix and linux) without > > any problems on mounted filesystems. > > Well, any known/observed problems... > > > Anyone with half an ounce of common sense will use due caution > > backing up "live" data, regardless of the tool used, and will prefer > > to work with umounted filesystems when possible, but it isn't an > > imperative, nor always practical. > > Only if you want a good backup of the data... Okay, I will admit that > I sometimes do backups with dump on live filesystems also... But > I know what I'm doing, and why... > > But again, this is getting off topic... So enough about this...
Right. Cause anyone with a decent filesystem is using snapshots anyways ;) Rick