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- From: buck@siswat.hou.tx.us (Lester Buck)
- Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.165300.13971@siswat.hou.tx.us>
- Organization: Photon Graphics, Houston
- References: <ericw.724459057@hobbes> <1992Dec16.161430.1109@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Dec31.174549.677@mav.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:53:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.174549.677@mav.com> toddi@mav.com (Todd Inch) writes:
- >>Because users may change files while they are being backed up, and you may
- >>end up with an inconsistent copy on the tape - say a random access file is
- >>keeping pointers to records at its end, and the data at the beginning.
- >
- >And likewise two separate files may be interdependant, such as detail
- >and header records in a database, or a data file and its accompanying
- >hashed-key file.
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- Veritas sells a file system which supports creation of one file system
- which is an atomic snapshot of another file system. The snapped
- filesystem is then free to change, though writes to it are slowed
- somewhat. The only problem is to quiesce the applications for a moment
- while the snapshot is being made, maybe for a minute. The Veritas file
- system is used in SVR4.2, I think.
-
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- A. Lester Buck buck@siswat.hou.tx.us ...!uhnix1!siswat!buck
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