[plug] re: disk backup

[James Devenish]

In message <20030701020414.GA15927 at guild.uwa.edu.au>
on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:04:14AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
>     (including dd, tar, cpio, dump).

Along the lines of tar and cpio there is also pax but for some reason a
lot of default Linux-based OS setups don't include it, even though tar
and cpio are usually present (I think that this unfortunately includes
Debian; not sure about RHL). Maybe there is no GNU version (!?!?!?!?!).
Having just poked around on some Linux systems...
And maybe the `dump` tool for your filesystem is not called `dump`.
Freshmeat and SourceForge should turn up a few free options
(e.g. AMANDA, Bacula, DAR, dump/restore, flexbackup, quickbackup).