>>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. Really good Chris, I'm dumping my filesystems NOW! :-), but a last question: How can I restore from this dump image? Regards; Israel >>Cheers, ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos End of CentOS Digest, Vol 15, Issue 18 **************************************