Mike Noble wrote:
Depending on the file system that you have(ext2,ext3....) I would recommend dump or cpio. If you have a tape drive attached (lets say /dev/st0) you can use the following dump command:
dump 0uf /dev/st0 /
This will dump the entire contents of the / file system to the tape drive. You can then restore from tape with the command restore.
So, has dump been fixed? Last I heard (and it was a while ago), Linus said if you used dump, you WOULD have data corruption.
