On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Martin McCormick wrote: > While looking on dselect, I saw there is a port of the BSD > package of dump and restore but it says it is for the ext2 file > system. Is there a Linux dump and restore utility anywhere that > is safe to use with ext3? Yes, dump is working well with ext3 filesystems, as long as they are not actively modified. LVM may come to help here. See: http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html -- Nicolas