Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jmason2
From: jmason2@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason)
Subject: Re: Whatcha Do During Backups?
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.122737.17200@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Computer Services Advisor
References: <WG0+Y5=@cs.widener.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 12:27:37 GMT

In article <WG0+Y5=@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
> This past weekend (month's end) made a question pop into my mind; we
>do different things to pass the time while we're doing our all-encompassing
>disk-swabbing backups, like play basketball, read, or whatever. This
>weekend we did one of those 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles.

	That's not just an admin question.  We *users* have to find
something to do when our favourite Unix box is down, doing its level 0
dumps.

	I engage in a new form of self-torture when my favourite Unix box
is down: I log into the IBM mainframe and endure CMS. :-)

Jamie  ...  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Written On  Monday, June 3, 1991  at  08:25:23am EDT