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Old 08-20-2007
Can I safely kill vdump?
Sceduled backups with vdump have been delayed as a mounted system had crashed while I was away for 2 weeks. Now there are 5 simultaneous vdumps running very slowly. The full system backup usually takes a whole weekend.

Can I safely kill these? (I will have to live without a backup untill next weekend).

We are in a clinical environment running Digital UNIX.

Thanks, Nickt.
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Old 08-20-2007
vdump just does full/incremental backups. Stopping it will not hurt anything - except:
files that remain unchanged after today will not be picked up on any subsequebnt incremental backup. A full backup will get them.
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Old 08-20-2007
Thanks Jim. My main concern was if it would corrupt the filing system killing a task that is writing data.
# 4  
Old 08-21-2007
If you were vdump-ing to files on a disk, then yes, those backup saveset files are now not usable.
The source files are fine.
# 5  
Old 08-21-2007
Yes, the target is an external USB disk drive (on a networked Windows 2000 system actually). Would I need to check the disk file structure (chkdsk or scandisk)?
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