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From: foperator@tekno.chalmers.se (Daniel Berglund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Backup of a living file system
Message-ID: <7496@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 11 Feb 90 20:01:49 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Is it possible/recommendable to take incremental backups of a living
filesystem?  I suppose it's almost dead at 4 am (like me :-), but there
may be background jobs.  Will activity in the filesystem result in
a dump containing a corrupt structure or just corrupt files ("just"
because users around at that time should blame themselves)?

We are running SunOS 4.0.3c on a sparcstation 1.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Daniel Berglund       (foperator@tekno.chalmers.se, BITNET: FOP@SECTHF51)
Chalmers University of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden