Backup/Restore utilities for UNICOS

Tue Oct 23 23:58:33 AEST 1990

>In article <231408.11866 at timbuk.cray.com>, jstout at ferris.cray.com (Jeff Stout) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct19.161653.2581 at vax1.sara.nl> gerben at vax1.sara.nl writes:
>>dump/restore of UNICOS; the UNICOS dump requires an unmount of the file-
>
>    Are you sure about this?

It doesn't require an unmount.  We backup this way every night. 

HOWEVER WHAT YOU ARE DUMPING IS AN UNSYNC'D FILE SYSTEM.  

It uses the raw device, the system buffers are not flushed!  

We take dedicated time periodically to take a sync'd full dump and use the nightly as a last resort.
Critical file systems such as /usr and root are copied every night using cpio.

 - Frank