Autzoo.406
gripes
utzoo!phyllis
Mon Apr 13 11:25:17 1981
backup downtime
If there MUST be downtime during the backup procedure, then why
choose one of the most popular working half hours of the day.
How come all of a sudden we need downtime?
[Why downtime?  Because we have strong suspicions that a good deal of
the trouble we have had with backups in the last year or so (backups that
are supposed to be consistent but aren't, backups that should restore
smoothly but don't, etc.) is due to the unwise practice of trying to get
a snapshot of a file system that is changing underfoot.  (Actually, "insane"
would be more appropriate than "unwise", since in the event of real trouble,
those backups are all that stands between us and total loss of all files.)
It is agreed that the time is not the best;  it is a temporary compromise.
A better way of handling this is in the works.			-- henry]