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Re: [Networker] backing up veritas file systems with legato

2004-10-14 09:07:16
Subject: Re: [Networker] backing up veritas file systems with legato
From: Howard Martin <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:06:08 -0400
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:15:03 -0700, Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM> 
wrote:
Solaris and Tru64 are the only unix system with an API to leave all the
time stamps alone (that Networker uses) and these only works with UFS and
not VxFS
LEGATO Technical Bulletin
386: NetWorker Save Operation Modifies atime Time Value
and a quick check of our Solaris UFS and VxFS filesystems (networker
6.1.4) confirms this.

>>
>> One thing to be aware of, when Networker backs up a Solaris file system
it
>> leaves the time stamps alone, when backing up VxFS the access time is
>> changed
>
>Is this a difference between VxFS and others like UFS?
>
>Solaris does have a mechanism for a backup program to read a file
>without resetting the access time, but I don't know that Networker makes
>use of it.
>
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