Yet the problem with NT backup, or any non-universe oriented utility, that saves ACTIVE files, is that it/they have no universe concurrency control; you run a great risk of saving corrupted (pointers in transition) images of files, UNLESS you make certain no users are WRITING (updating). That was the reason I was tasked with writing uvbackup/ uvrestore back in '91: to create a utility that mimicked cpio (albeit loosely) that understood the universe file structure and implemented concurrency control. I spent many long nights fixing broken customer files because of exactly this...
-----Original Message----- From: Anthony Caufield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse Backup/Resizing Questions I have found that uvbackup is not the answer NT backup works but is not very good on compression. No matter what you use I highly recommend St Bernard's Open File Manager it makes sure you can backup all files. Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Schexnayder Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] UniVerse Backup/Resizing Questions Hello, We are rolling out our product on UniVerse 10.1/NT, currently we are running on D3, and we have a couple UniVerse questions. 1) Resizing. When we asked IBM about resizing, their answer was "FAST". However, I am not impressed with the product nor the expense, are there any alternatives? 2) Backups. I read another thread where the user indicated that they used UVBackup to create a file, and then the O/S backed up that file. Is that the general consensus? Others I have spoken with have indicated that they use only an O/S backup. In that case, what about locks and users on the system? Is there a best way to do backups? Thanks so much for your help, Dave Schexnayder Cheetah Advanced Technologies, Inc. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
