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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Why idle backups?? (was Re: Looking for shell script for backup on BSD 4.3)
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Date: 22 Oct 90 14:31:17 GMT
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In article <1642@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> john@achilles.ua.oz (John Warburton) writes:
>... we currently do our back ups at midnight each
>night WITHOUT shutting down the system. Is this likely to cause problems with
>restoring files??

It's not exactly the same but I tend to see restoring this tape as
being as risky as having hit reset at the time of the backup.

Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM.     tif@doorstop, sc30661 at ausvm6
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