Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!eplrx7!mcneill
From: mcneill@eplrx7.UUCP (Keith McNeill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Down in the Dumps (a true story)
Keywords: dump
Message-ID: <611@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 13:19:13 GMT
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I once did:

	dump 0uf /dev/rra0a /dev/rra0a (blush)

My fingers just got carried away....

I like what sys5 dangerous utilities (volcopy & mkfs) do.  
They tell you what you are doing and wait 5-10 seconds 
before they do anything.  This gives you a chance to 
change you mind.  For example dump could do something like this:

DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 26 09:03:42 1988
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rra0a (/) to /dev/rra0a 
DUMP: Sleeping 10 seconds...Hit BREAK to quit....

Something like this would have saved us a morning of down time!


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