On 07/10/12 12:06 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 7/10/12, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> dump should not be used on mounted file systems, except / in single user. > Aha, thanks for the warning! > IF you're using LVM, you can take a file system snapshot, and dump the snapshot, however, as this is a point-in-time replica of the file system. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast