man dump
Agreed. dump takes a "snapshot" of an ext2/ext3 system. You can use "restore -C" (compare mode) to verify the resulting backup.
dump is independently supported on its own mailing list at dump.sf.net. (Not a lot of activity, because it's such a stable program.)
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