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From: dubois@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Dumps on active file systems
Message-ID: <227@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 18:04:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: rhesus.227
Posted: Fri Jul 24 18:04:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 15:42:19 EDT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
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I intend to begin doing the incremental dumps on my system during
the wee hours of the night.   (Vax 8200, Ultrix 1.2).  Although I
don't expect much machine activity at 3 in the morning, the file
systems will still techically be active (no single-user/umount/reboot
sequence, in other words).  What kinds of problems might I reasonably
expect, should I ever need to restore one of these dumps?  Anything
serious?  Or just minor inconsistencies?  Or not even that?

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