On 9/29/07, Francisco Valladolid Hdez. <ficovh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends.
>
> I have the necessity to backup my ( /, /home, /usr,
> /var) partitions individually.
>
> Ho can dump my complete slice (partition) into file or
> clone the complete partitions into usb hard disk.
>
> I'm using this command but into another hard disk  in
> the same machine,.. but some time, I don't have one in
> my desk.
>
> # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=/dev/rwd1a bs=16b seek=1
>

Try using the 'dump' command.