Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:43:07AM -0400, 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'm using dump/restore on CentOS. > > AFAIK, it is the best "backup software" avaliable. > I agree. I install an extra disk and do a disk to disk dump. Periodically, I compress/download the dumps and store them offsite. I "discovered" dump back in the BSDI 1.0 days (my God...15 years ago...hehe) and haven't felt like I needed anything more complex since then. It just plain works. Cheers,