Dump errors with selinux

[Norman Gaywood]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Simon Andrews wrote:
> > We've used dump/restore for our backups since way back in RH7.x. 
> 
> It's worth noting that Linus Torvalds believes the program to be
> terminally broken:
> http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
> 
> He writes:
>     So anybody who depends on "dump" getting backups right is already
>     playing russian rulette with their backups.
 
It's also worth noting that the developers of dump think that the risks
are overstated.

http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html

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