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From: indermau@dg (Kurt Indermaur)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: automated dump?
Summary: Is an automated dump or shutdown/restart possible?
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Date: 6 Jun 88 21:06:47 GMT
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I would like to be able to put a tape in the drive at night and come in
early in the morning to remove a perfect incremental backup.  Is something
like this possible (using dump and a shell script)?  Does the system have to 
be shutdown, and the file system unmounted, to get a reliable backup (i.e., 
no weird inode errors when restoring)?  Any pointers to more complete docu-
mentation (not man pages) would also be VERY much appreciated!

--Kurt Indermaur
(indermau@dg.cs.umn.edu)