man8/backup

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Name

backup - computer system backup script

Synopsis

backup [arg]

Description

This script is used to backup the computer disk drives. It must be run by root. It is customized for each computer it is installed on. When running the program it is likely that it must be started by the command ./backup <arg> since the current directory isn’t usually in root’s PATH.

Arguments

base
Backup the base file system of the computer. This should be preceeded by backup unmount.
accelnet
Backup the AccelNET and users file systems. This option will only be present in the backup script for the file system.
unmount
Unmounts all of the NFS mounted file systems. Typically the AccelNET file system and the users file system are shared with one computer acting as a file server in a multicomputer AccelNET environment. In some cases such may be more file systems shared.
mount
Remounts all of the NFS mounted file systems after performing the backup.

Examples

To backup a client computer system change directories to / and type:

Manual page revision

$Id: backup.8,v 1.0 1999/01/05 22:38:24 kitchen Exp $


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