George, If you are doing a backup using a O/S utility (tar, etc), then yes, you need to do cstop first. You can use the Cache Backup utility to do a backup of the Cache databases without shutting down the system, but it will only backup the Cache databases, not the rest of the environment. If you can afford the downtime, then the cstop with the O/S backup is my preference. If not, then I prefer to use shadowing, and do the backup on the shadow. Mark
"george d lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > We are very close to going live with 5.0.5 for linux. > With 2.x on AIX we have to to a cstop before we backup to tape. Will I have > to still do this with 5x? > >
