On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Steven Elling wrote:

>         - Used to dump ext2/3 file systems only.

> >       - Solaris commands are 'ufsdump' and 'ufsrestore'.  Other OSes have
> >         similar names for specific filesystems, e.g. xfsdump and advsdump.

>         - Does not work with reiser file systems and there is no equivalent.

These three can probably be combined:

  - Limited to specific filesystems, e.g. "dump" for ext2/3 on Linux and 
    UFS on *BSD, "ufsdump" for UFS on Solaris, xfsdump for XFS on Irix and
    Linux, vdump for AdvFs on Tru64.

>           Use tar instead.

Are you sure?  Pretend you're on a system that doesn't have GNU tar.
Now pretend you want to back up a file system with really long paths, lots
of files with holes in them, and a batch of named pipes.  Traditional tar
implementations stink for all of these.

Dump also has a cool interactive restore feature.  Too bad it's deprecated
for 2.4 and beyond.