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Re: Links as links in archive (was Re: Archive vs. Backup)

1999-02-01 21:36:58
Subject: Re: Links as links in archive (was Re: Archive vs. Backup)
From: Bruce Elrick <belrick AT HOME DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:36:58 -0700
Robert Cross wrote:

> belrick AT home DOT com wrote:
> #And speaking of 'the way it should work' (in my humble opinion), why can't we
> have
> #the option of crossing filesystem boundaries?  I respect that when I archive
> #'/* -subdir=yes' I only get stuff in the root filesystem, but wouldn't it be
> nice
> #be able to say '/* -subdir=yes -crossfsboundary=yes' and have it archive the
> #entire system?  Or '/application/* -subdir=yes -crossfsboundary=yes' and have
> it
> #archive all the data in the filesystems /application/home, /application/db,
> #/application/exports, etc.
>
> Funnily enough, I came across last week a situation where the fact that the
> restore already
> does this is bad news. A Solaris upgrade went bad big-time and we have to
> rebuild the system.
> Unfortunately you can't just dsmc restore "/*" to get the root filesystem 
> back,
> since it restores
> everything! (Luckily the data areas were untouched so I wanted to keep them) I
> know if the GUI
> client is available - which it was, although only the V2 one - this isn't
> *much* of a hardship.
>
> Bob Cross.

Yes, clearly you can't restore (retrieve, in our discussion) /* and hope to 
have a
functional operating system, but on the archive side, it would be useful...

Cheers...
Bruce
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Bruce Elrick, Ph.D.
Bruce Elrick, Ph.D.
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