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- From: ptanner@crow.eng.stratus.com (Philip Tanner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: backup problem
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 12:49:06 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- Message-ID: <1hphg2INN6po@transfer.stratus.com>
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- Recently I posted a question about a problem I was having
- with my backups. Surprisingly I didn't receive any answers on
- what to try so I'm re-posting the situation.
- I do backups by mounting filesystems with the following
- mount options to an IPX with a 5GB exabyte tape drive:
-
- /usr/etc/mount -o intr,ro,retry=2,timeo=100 $system:$file_system
-
- Then I run tar to dump the filesystem to tape. ( I know tar limits
- me to 100 character filenames, etc. and I'm testing alternatives to tar now).
- My problem happens if the machine I'm backing up goes down. The
- tar command goes into a disk wait and the sun even hangs up on it. My
- question is this: Would mounting the filesystem soft help here? Is there
- another approach which would fix this?
- Basically, when the machine being backup up goes down, I want
- the script to continue on.
- Please send responses to ptanner@eng.stratus.com. I'll forward
- replies to anyone interested.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Phil Tanner
-