It was suggested to me to use dump to back up a file system. I tried the command dump -0u /var/backup/etcback where etcback is the directory I want to backup too. I suspect that dump only wants to backup to tape, but I want to backup to a file system. I would also like to be able to do incremental backups and I would like them to compress. How should I do this? Can I still use dump, and if so, how to I tell it it is not a tape. When I run the command above, I get an error, cannot open output /var/backup/etcback Rejean Proulx Visit my family at http://interfree.ca MSN is: rejp at rogers.com Ham License VA3REJ
