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Well...this is the format of the command I used to back up my filesystems...
dump -0uaLn -f - /usr | gzip -2 | dd of=/media/iomega/usr/dump-usr-5-5.gz Didn't take as long as I expected (about 4 hours)...even though /usr was a 50GB filesystem and the pipe was USB 1.0. --Damien |
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backup options are many and varied... I might lean towards tar for what you are doing. I use dump for backing up to tape and dd for imaging entire disks.
Also - google Clonezilla - nice tool to add to your kit. |
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Clonezilla is a liveCD - so its use necessitates downtime. Another option is to generate snapshots using dd and output across the wire to an nfs or cifs share. You can pipe it to gzip first if desired, but with the size of today's NAS units, space it not a big issue.
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