UNIX- HELP! ARE WE BE

D> From: dagon@chinook.halcyon.com (Mark Rafn) D> Timothy Hood <timothy.hood@sltrib.com> wrote: >run a good backup and ensure it's integrity (though this is not required, >one would be rogue to continue without doing so) >cpio -p a directory to a file on disk in another location >check to ensure successful cpio >wipe out the original path >restore cpio back to original path >on successful restore, wipe out cpio file > >This is not glamorous, but it is free! D> We do something similar about once per year. However, I was under the > impression that you need to re-create the filesystem in order to ensure > contiguity of the replaced files. I forgot to mention that this should be done on a "quiet" system! This method will create contiguous files as long as there is nothing to get in the way. D> To make this more appropriate to the group: > We're currently using Informix SE, which uses the unix filesystem and is > therefore somewhat affected by fragmentation (although I've never been > able to measure a difference after defragging). Is it > necessary/desirable/possible to defragment Online dbspaces, which don't > use the Unix filesystem? That was something I thought of on the way home yesterday, but I figure that everyone who knows how to administer online dbspaces would also know that the cpio trick wouldn't work there. > Mark Rafn dagon@halcyon.com http://www.halcyon.com/dagon/ > Decadence is its own reward. --- ~ SPEED 1.40 [NR] ~