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? > > I don't want to use tar. > Let's say you have two disks. There's the "system" disk with the root partition mounted as / and the "backup" disk mounted as /backup. If you did this: /sbin/dump -0u -f /backup/rootbackup / you would wind up with a dump image of your root filesystem on your backup disk and it would be called "rootbackup". That works for me. Cheers,