Re: Decreasing downtime during backup!
From: Alan Vidmar (Alan.Vidmar_at_COLORADO.EDU)
Date: 10/04/04
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:28:09 -0600 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
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> Good Afternoon all!
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> We are trying to decrease the amount of time the users have to be off the
> system for our nightly backup. Right now, its two hours, but we want to
> make it shorter. One way we tried was to tar the files for our backup to a
> /workspace directory. Then dd the files to the backup tape. The tar takes a
> few mins, but the dd to tape takes over 6 hours.
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> What other strategies have you tried and are willing to share?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Frank Bright
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