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From: hayes@wizard.ucsd.edu (James Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Backups on Live Systems
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 22:53:18 EDT
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Keywords: backup, dump, filesystem

Just curious (not having any experience with things like this..) what would
be the harm of "suspending" any "multi-day" jobs while the backup is running 
and then restarting them?  It stands to reason the file system might be just 
a tad more "stable" then.

Maybe SIGSTOP and SIGCONT for BSD?

Jim Hayes, University of California at San Diego.

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