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Article #9986Re: additional thoughts on dumping while up multi-user
From: Paul Gill
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 05:37
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 05:37
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sklower@okeeffe.berkeley.edu (Keith Sklower) writes: >As has been noted on sun-spots previously, when one dumps an active file >system, one runs (a somewhat low, but non-neglible) risk of various >nasties happening and causing some inconsistencies in the dump tape. > > [rest of article deleted] I would like to have more details on the sort of nasties one risks when doing dumps on active file system. I have been doing all dumps (except level 0) on Sun OS3.5 and Vax BSD4.3 without shutting down the systems. I never had any problem restoring but maybe I was very lucky over the last 2 years. Thank --- Paul Gill Analyst, Concordia University, Computer Science, 1455 De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 (514)-848-3035
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: paul@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Paul Gill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: additional thoughts on dumping while up multi-user Message-ID: <546@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA> Date: 3 Jan 89 05:37:14 GMT References: <8812092313.AA02709@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 21 Dec 88 14:49:30 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 83, message 2 of 22 X-Issue-Reference: v7n62