Why idle backups?? (was Re: Looking for shell script for backup on BSD 4.3)

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <1642 at sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> john at achilles.ua.oz (John Warburton) writes:
>... we currently do our back ups at midnight each
>night WITHOUT shutting down the system. Is this likely to cause problems with
>restoring files??

It's not exactly the same but I tend to see restoring this tape as
being as risky as having hit reset at the time of the backup.

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