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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Why idle backups?? (was Re: Looking for shell script for backup on BSD 4.3)
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.210312.3271@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 21:03:12 GMT
References: <547@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> <1642@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <32749@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com>
Reply-To: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Organization: Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
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In article <32749@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com> zwicky@quetzalcoatl.erg.sri.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes:
>
>Purdue modified dump if at all possible, and you should give serious
>thought to running level 0s in single-user; you can do this
>automatically in the middle of the night by using the same sort of
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>trick that fastboot uses, creating a magic file that the rc files
>look for in the boot process to tell them to do backups.
>

I have seen this suggestion more than once on this news group.
But I don't know how. One question I have is about the tape changes.
Certainly one tape is not enough for a zero level backup.
How to get away with this problem?  Thanks for any enlightenment.

-ping