On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 13:35 -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
Quoting Steve Lindemann steve@marmot.org:
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