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.
Of course he wrote that. He probably felt some guilt for not providing both block and character devices for disks, as any other half-decent Unix/Unix-like OS has ;-)
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