--On Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:01 PM -0500 Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us> wrote: > man dump Agreed. dump takes a "snapshot" of an ext2/ext3 system. You can use "restore -C" (compare mode) to verify the resulting backup. dump is independently supported on its own mailing list at dump.sf.net. (Not a lot of activity, because it's such a stable program.)