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- From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: dump/rdump in single-user
- Message-ID: <BtC3ny.Dn0@fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 12:50:22 GMT
- References: <32121@adm.brl.mil> <BtBrsG.Etu@newcastle.ac.uk>
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- >>>>> On 21 Aug 92 08:33:52 GMT, C.R.Ritson@newcastle.ac.uk (C.R. Ritson) said:
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- C.R.> There are cirtain pathological conditions that can cause more
- C.R.> seriously unusable dump tapes, in rare circumstances. The "quiescent
- C.R.> system" bit is important. See the following articles:-
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- I do my dumps using Sun's Online:Disksuite --- add an extra mirror to
- the filesystem, detach it, fsck the now detached system and then dump
- it. I believe that these tapes should be pretty solid.
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- ian
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