[CentOS] backing up my system with dump
David Mansfield
centos at dm.cobite.com
Fri Apr 21 18:53:58 UTC 2006
israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 4.3 on Intel. I don't have any tape device on my
> system for backup, but I have an entire disk (/dev/sdb) for backup ...
> my question is:
>
> How can I backup ALL my filesystems to some place of my backup hdd
> (dev/sdb) using dump/restore?
>
You can also check out 'dar' which is exactly for this. It backs up
special device nodes, EA's etc. and has a catalog. I have used it many
times for this kind of thing.
David
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