https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/vxdump/m-p/4216345#M27428 I am not a big UNIX guy but the major difference is that VxDUMP works for VxFS, that means it's a filesystem based backup utility whereas "dd" is more versatile because it works at block level copy/backup mechanism. So dd will work universally but vxdump will only work with own file systems. Also, dd is there for many years and I believe dd doesn't have very good compression mechanism compare to others.<BR /><BR />Hope that helps. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:10:45 GMT Amar_Joshi 2008-06-13T14:10:45Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/vxdump/m-p/4216344#M27427 Hi,<BR /><BR />What is the diff between vxdump and dd.<BR /><BR />Regards<BR />atulkumar Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:29:58 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/vxdump/m-p/4216344#M27427 Prashanth Waugh 2008-06-13T13:29:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/vxdump/m-p/4216345#M27428 I am not a big UNIX guy but the major difference is that VxDUMP works for VxFS, that means it's a filesystem based backup utility whereas "dd" is more versatile because it works at block level copy/backup mechanism. So dd will work universally but vxdump will only work with own file systems. Also, dd is there for many years and I believe dd doesn't have very good compression mechanism compare to others.<BR /><BR />Hope that helps. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:10:45 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/vxdump/m-p/4216345#M27428 Amar_Joshi 2008-06-13T14:10:45Z