On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 09:43, 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? > > 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. If you want on-line disk storage, look at backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/). It uses compression and pooling of duplicates to keep much more online than you would expect and has a nice web interface for browsing backups and doing restores. It doesn't do bare metal restores by itself, but it can give you a tar image that can be installed through your install disk booted in rescue mode or one of the live CDs like knoppix. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com