Is dump available for ext4 file systems on RHEL 6?

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Issue

  • Is the dump command supported with ext4 file systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
  • We need to copy a file system from machine 1 to a tape drive on machine 2, and have used dump in previous releases
  • The man pages for dump only indicate support for ext2 and ext3

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • ext4

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