mke2fs of the e2fsprogs-package>=1.15 is creating filesystems with revision level #1 by default. This revision level is not understood by dump and aborts dump with "Get a newer version of dump!".
What version of dump are you using? The latest in Raw Hide is dump-0.4b4-9.
Some information about my system: $ rpm -q dump e2fsprogs dump-0.4b4-9 e2fsprogs-1.15-2 $ dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 | head dumpe2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem volume name: /boot Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: .... Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) <---- dump accepts only == 0 Filesystem features: sparse_super Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 4016 $ /sbin/dump -0u -f - /dev/hda1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Sep 9 03:09:45 1999 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/boot) to standard output /dev/hda1: while opening filesystem Get a newer version of dump! /dev/hda1 was formated by "mke2fs /dev/hda1"
This has been fixed in the dump currently in Raw Hide.