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? > You can also check out 'dar' which is exactly for this. It backs up special device nodes, EA's etc. and has a catalog. I have used it many times for this kind of thing. David