Jon Stanley wrote: > On Dec 28, 2007 10:16 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> drive. Dump tends to be unhappy if the filesystem changes during the >> run, so you might be better off using tar. Also, some tape drives are >> > > Note what Linus has to say on the topic here: > http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3 > > Old post, still applies just as well today as it did then. > > And the rebuttal to Linus' view on dump/restore http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html However keep in mind, dump will only work on a ext2 or ext3 filesystem. To restore the filesystem you have a few methods, if you want to restore everything do the following: cd /newfilesystem; restore rf /dev/{tapedevice} Jeff