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Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Nigel P. Longbottom wrote:

>Very good. Now, what has that got to do with backups?

>> The moral is - do Sun really want to keep their customers by telling them
>> that the only way to backup a system is to stand by it and load CD's then

>Who on earth seriously uses CDs as a backup medium?

I think you misread that. He is talking about booting from CD so
that he can backup with the filesystems unmounted. That's where the
"load CD's" part comes in.

>> manually type the commands in? If someone from Sun is reading this - you

>Manually? No, sysadmins with a clue use a script, preferably
>driven from cron.

If you are first booting from the install CD's then it isn't going to
be easy with cron. Either the OP was given poor advice, or he
misinterpreted the advice he was given. I cannot tell which.

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