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Re: /tmp filesystem not backing up on AIX

1996-12-03 17:47:28
Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem not backing up on AIX
From: Paul Zarnowski <VKM AT CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:47:28 EST
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:46:22 -0500 Tom Denier said:
>My question and your response deal with different situations. My question
>deals with the case where the domain option is specified explicitly as
>'all-local'. Your response deals with the case where the domain option
>is not specified at all. I understand perfectly well how the latter case
>is supposed to work, and my observations indicate that it works just as
>IBM claims it does.

Tom,

I did not understand the distinction you were making.  My understanding is
that there is no difference between specifying a domain of ALL-LOCAL and not
specifying a DOMAIN at all.  I.e., if you don't specify a domain, it defaults
to ALL-LOCAL, and the default (ALL-LOCAL) does not back up /tmp.

This understanding was based on the following text on page 101:

1) If you do not specify file systems with the DOMAIN option in your client
   user options file, the default is all locally mounted file systems except
   /tmp.

2) The default value for this option (domain) is ALL-LOCAL, which specifies
   that all local file systems are to be backed up.

I guess it would be clearer if item #2 included the words "except /tmp", but
even as worded I think you can arrive at a correct conclusion after careful
logic analysis of the above text.   ;)

..Paul
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