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- From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos)
- Subject: Re: Hi, there:
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.235851.4771@bvl.pt>
- Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:58:51 GMT
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- : users on PC can still have open files via PC-NFS.
- : I believe this is a quite common
- : dilemma for most sysadmin.
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- STOP NFS...
- Well, I know thats not very polite, but just let your NFS users know
- that at the hour X the system will be down for backup... Then, don't
- take chances, do the backups in Single User Mode, if you are local
- to the system, if you are not, just stop NFS and logins.
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- : 1. how dangerous to backup a partition ( dump ) with some file opening on it?
- : could this only corrupt those files or the whole filesystem in some
- : special case?
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- The whole file system ??? I don't think so (IMHO).
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- --
- regards,
- ____
- |/asco
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