support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566)

[Mike Tancsa]

At 10:01 AM 3/26/2009, Peter Schuller wrote:
> >
> > Unless the filesystem is very busy, you will get your data backed up.
> > If you have things like databases, I still would not trust
> > snapshots.
>
>Uh. If backuping up a live database from a snapshot is not
>trustworthy, either the snapshot facility is broken or the database is
>broken (i.e., not crash-safe to begin with).

... or the database is configured in a risky way... But judging by 
this thread, it seems dump with -L is indeed broken for some 
people.  Hence, I suggested dumping the database using the database's 
backup tools and trying dump without -L

         ---Mike