backups on the news partition

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From: Gary Mills
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 04:34

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I'm wondering how other news admins do backups on the news partitions?
We do a level zero every night on the live system.  One concern I have
is that the backup slows down news processing so that a backlog of
incoming batches develops.  This can get really bad if expire is running
at the same time as the backup, but we try to avoid this situation.
Does anyone have a better way?  The main purpose of the backup is to
restore the entire partition in the event of a hardware failure.

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-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-

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