Hi.<br><br>I am running CentOS 4.3 on a small home server just dishing up mail, music etc. to the household. I had been doing irregular backups to a 160GB USB external drive /dev/sda1 mounted as /mnt/backup using tar. Then I read somewhere that dump was better so I tried that after clearing the drive (formatted as ext3).
<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">dump -0u -f /dev/sda1 /shared </span>took a while to finish but gave no errors however <span style="font-style: italic;">ls</span> showed no files and <span style="font-style: italic;">
df -h</span> showed /dev/sda1 to be 4.4T in size and 100% full.<br><br>I've looked at the man pages but I must be missing something!<br><br>Regards,<br> John<br>