[SunHELP] fsdump question

[Aali Naser]

Tanks to all who responded. Yor feed back has helped a lot.

Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dieter Montanez" <dietermontanez at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] fsdump question


> the man pages say "it's a good idea" to be in single user mode
> and/or unmount the fs. It will do with mounted fs though ...
> I do that all the time with slices that have fs that are static.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Connolly, Michael - EC Newton
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:07 PM
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> In fact, if you use the -v (verify) option the fs MUST be unmounted...
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael J. Connolly
> Worldwide PLM/PDM Manager
> ITT Industries, Electronic Components
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
> On Behalf Of Dieter Montanez
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:02 PM
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>
> no, /dev/rdsk/xxx is the raw device, you do not need to mount the fs tu
> ufsdump it.
> Umounted is even better since noone will do any changes to the files.
>
> dieter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Aali Naser
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:39 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] fsdump question
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> If I am doing a ufsdump backup on raw devices such as
> "/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0", is it requird to hav the FS mounted before I can
> start the backup.
>
> Thanks
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