Backup Question (dump)
Len Senetza
senetza at honte.uleth.ca
Thu May 23 00:55:13 AEST 1991
I'm wondering how dump handles open files. Does it back them up? Does
it skip them? Does it trash them in the process of backing them up? I
realize that having a file open while dumping (or any other type of
access) can have unpredictable results, but I wanna know how dump
handles it.
See, when we do our backups we don't shut-down to single user mode. We
have a DECserver 3100 serving 2 DECstation 3100's and 22 VAXstation
3100's in a computing science lab. This stuff has to be running almost
continually (hardware failure is practically the only excuse). So, we
have to do live backups.
I'm not trying to start a flame war about how to do backups and all that
-- I know, and we have to take the risk of losing a couple of files here
and there. I just want to know how dump handles open files. Oh, we're
currently running Ultrix 3.1D. Yes, we are upgrading to 4.2 ASAP.
--
Len Senetza Internet: senetza at hg.uleth.ca <preferred>
Academic Consultant senetza at honte.uleth.ca
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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