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Subject: Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies
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>
>>
>> dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
>
> One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
> snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
> default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root

again - it will still dump file, maybe with few files missing but not the 
whole dump