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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:18:43 EDT
- Sender: "VM Shared File System (SFS) forum" <SFS-L@SEARN.BITNET>
- From: Pete Kostik <MAINT1@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: A question
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 25 Aug 1992 12:36:46 EST from <IPWP400@INDYCMS.IUP UI.EDU>
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- On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:36:46 EST Phillip Paxton / IT said:
- >VMBackup will allow you to back up many users' directories in a filepool
- >or entire filepools, but will only allow you to restore a single user
- >directory or an entire filepool. This means it is out as a migration
- >tool as you'd have to submit one restore job for each user.
-
- We've used VMBACKUP to restore individual storage groups to a different
- filepool. Thus, VMBACKUP gives three levels of restoring: individual
- filespace (one user), a storage group, and the entire filepool.
-
- Having VMBACKUP to do this with saved my butt one night when we lost
- the production filepool after corruption problems.
-
- - Pete Kostik, Systems Software Bitnet : maint1@ers
- USDA Economic Research Service IBMmail: usersjxz@ibmmail
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