Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!felix!zemon
From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ultrix v2.2 Surprises
Message-ID: <29937@felix.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:34:22 GMT
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Reply-To: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: DEC SWS, Landover, MD
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Wendy et al.  (Wendy, didn'T I meet you at DECUS???)  It is quite safe
to dump a mounted file system.  Actually, on decuac, we dump file systems
while the system is multi-user.  What, me scared???  Nahhhh.

If you want to wimp out ( :-) ) and run dumps on a quiet system, just shut it
down to single user, but leave everything mounted.  I guess you might want to
do an fsck, but would someone who runs dumps on a live system care about 
fsck???  Actually, the system assumes that everything is okay unless the system
crashes and so should you...

Fred


[ I just do the equivalent of "umount -a ; mount -r /usr" before doing
  backups on our system.	    -- Art Z. ]