Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)

[Paul]

Jeff Metcalf wrote:
> A file system based backup is a good deal safer. 
>
> Isn't dump(8) considered a filesystem based backup?  Are you refering to something more specialized?
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A file system based backup is one that uses the file system to pick up
the blocks of a file and store it contiguously in the backup. dump
literally dumps the raw disk contents to a file as a stream, complete
with any fragmentation and what-have-you.


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Paul