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From: tedcrane@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SA Backup and page/swap files
Message-ID: <1428@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 10:11:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1428
Posted: Wed Jun 17 10:11:26 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 04:38:50 EDT
References: <357bebf7.8be4@apollo.uucp> <2818@blia.BLI.COM>
Reply-To: tedcrane@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
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In article <2818@blia.BLI.COM> ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall) writes:
>
>Note that this situation creates a nice little zapper: don't boot SAB from
>a disk that you are then going to restore over. If SAB has to page, it'll
>do it right over the restored data! (SAB may protect against restoring over
>its "system" disk, I don't know off hand.)
>

Stand-Alone Backup does not warn you if you are attempting to restore over
its boot media.

We've done that (boot from a disk, then restore onto it) in the past with
mixed results.  Sometimes, no problem, sometimes, S/A Backup never finishes.
It's *NOT* a recommended procedure unless you're in a hurry and don't care
about the long term results (for example, you just want one file off a TK50
backup and don't want to wait 20 minutes for it to boot S/A BACKUP off the TK50)

- ted crane, alias (tc)
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