[geeks] On the job stuff...

[Brian Hechinger]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:40:44AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> 
> What does everyone do in production... obviously it would be silly to 
> take backups even in the middle of the night if you have to bring the 
> machine down.

either snapshot with veritas, or mirror with SDS, split the mirror, and backup
the offlined portion of the mirror, re-attach mirror, voila.

-brian
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