Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!dg!indermau From: indermau@dg (Kurt Indermaur) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: automated dump? Summary: Is an automated dump or shutdown/restart possible? Message-ID: <5750@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Date: 6 Jun 88 21:06:47 GMT Sender: news@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu Reply-To: indermau@dg.cs.umn.edu.UUCP (Kurt Indermaur) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Computer Science Department. Lines: 8 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)