Ultrix v2.2 Surprises
Frederick M. Avolio
avolio at decuac.dec.com
Thu Apr 14 09:34:22 AEST 1988
Wendy et al. (Wendy, didn'T I meet you at DECUS???) It is quite safe
to dump a mounted file system. Actually, on decuac, we dump file systems
while the system is multi-user. What, me scared??? Nahhhh.
If you want to wimp out ( :-) ) and run dumps on a quiet system, just shut it
down to single user, but leave everything mounted. I guess you might want to
do an fsck, but would someone who runs dumps on a live system care about
fsck??? Actually, the system assumes that everything is okay unless the system
crashes and so should you...
Fred
[ I just do the equivalent of "umount -a ; mount -r /usr" before doing
backups on our system. -- Art Z. ]
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