Brett Lymn <bl...@baea.com.au> writes: > [...] > The safest way to do a dump is when the machine is in single user mode > for this very reason but many people play fast and loose because they > cannot wear the outage for a backup, in that case you must quiesce the > file systems as best you can. Really, this is well known unix sys > admin procedure.
That make sense but it makes me wonder how one practically use dump/restore to do regular backup ? Tell users, go to the machine room, boot -s and dump ? I thought that it was something done in cron on a running machine. -- Manuel Giraud
