John et al > I've also used the unix/linux OS-level cp command > to make a duplicate copy of our entire production database for > development use evey night for the past 12 years, and have yet to run > into a single issue with file integrity.
That's only possibly valid if you don't use dynamic files or secondary indices. Both of those will cause huge problems if you try to backup and copy at the OS level. - dynamic files may break as the load counters are held in shared memory. - secondary indices hold absolute pathnames in the file header. A classic error is to take a copy of a file to play around with not noticing that it has a secondary index attached. Then any changes to that file will affect the LIVE index. Brian ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
