On Apr 4, 2006, at 10:43 AM, 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? if dump is what you're used to, keep using it. dump/restore are part of CentOS: [shuff at vecna ~]$ rpm -qi dump Name : dump Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.4b39 Vendor: CentOS Release : 3.EL4.2 Build Date: Tue 23 Aug 2005 05:32:49 AM EDT Install Date: Mon 21 Nov 2005 08:29:21 AM EST Build Host: build1- i386 Group : Applications/Archiving Source RPM: dump-0.4b39-3.EL4.2.src.rpm Size : 1588834 License: BSD Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 23 Aug 2005 06:09:50 AM EDT, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821Packager : Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> URL : http://dump.sourceforge.net Summary : Programs for backing up and restoring ext2/ext3 filesystems. Description : The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape, or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups. Install dump if you need a system for both backing up filesystems and restoring filesystems after backups. --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v