At 4:40 PM -0500 10/26/05, Les Mikesell wrote: ... >I think if you use dump, the right approach would be to use LVM and >make a snapshot first, then back up the snapshot. Does anyone know >if this actually works? I don't think it will have anything to do with the problem at hand, of data in the Linux disk cache. To use dump safely the filesystem must not be mounted. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>