I've often done a similar thing when I know I'm going to have to restore a
large filesystem and want to limit the # of mounts and tape search time.

It's also the standard procedure I use to move filesystems - I do a
selective, then restore it on the new machine. It doesn't take much longer
than a direct copy over NFS (or tar|rsh|tar), and I'm protected if something
bad happens because I know I've got a good backup. It's also contiguous on
tape as described above.

Thanks,
-Scott
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    L. Scott Emmons    | CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
Staff Software Engineer|Systems Administration, Systems Development Dept
    (916) 939-6088     |  Views and content are my own, not CableData's

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
> Behalf Of
> Mark Kimelheim
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 10:02 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: selective backup prior to client maintenance?
>
>
> ADSM employs an "incremental forever" backup paradigm.
> However, we'll be
> performing maintenace on a client this weekend, and so the
> there will be a
> increased risk of data loss.  Would it be prudent to take a selective
> rather than an incremental backup in anticipation of that
> maintenance?  Has
> anyone adopted this practice?
>
> Thanks.
> Mark.
>