Alan Altmark wrote:
On Friday, 05/30/2008 at 01:37 EDT, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
If we had a NETDATA command (query/send/receive functions) then on
SLES10-SP2 (VM Unit Record functionality) we could netdata the files to
ourselves at the end of each successful IPL and they would be waiting
for us when we find corruption/errors in these files.
Since these are plain-text files, the CMS machine that catches the files
could pipe (PUNCH NOH) them back to Linux. Or use virtual printer files
if they're > 80 characters.
Seems to me there are many ways to back it up that might work, sometimes.
However, I think it's fairly pointless unless you know why it's damaged
- if it's filesystem corruption, then larger, more important files are
at greater risk.
Once you know how it's damage, why it's at risk, then you know what to
fix and you can do the job properly.
Just backing it up because it got damaged by some unfortunate fluke
seems to me to be papering over the real problem. Linux isn't so
unreliable that it loses files left and right, and neither are VM nor
IBM mainframes.
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Cheers
John
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