Erin Fortenberry wrote: > I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many > years for disk to disk backups. > > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only > using tar/star for backups? I use a variation of snapshot + dump for fast backups on a fc4 box. I would expect it to work on centos as well. Basically I use LVM and create a volume group on a large drive. Then create a logical partition using 50% or less of the volume group. Once a week I create a read only snapshot of the logical partition which takes about 2 seconds. Then I dump the snapshot to tape and delete the snapshot partition. I don't even have unmount the filesystem so it works well on a live system (atleast in my experience).