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... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!
