Quoting Erin Fortenberry <Erin at Fortenberry.net>: > 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? > > Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but > dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a > bare metal restore. > > What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else > using? > > I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using > FreeBSD for too long. Have you considered Arkeia? <http://www.arkeia.com> They offer Arkeia Light - which is free for very small installations. Barry