The reason one would perform the former over the latter is to ensure that
all of the files residing in the SYS account be placed at the beginning of
the backup.

Whether that is a good thing is, IMHO, dubious.

Perhaps, in the days of half-inch 1600 BPI magnetic tapes, it could provide
for a quicker restore of files in the SYS account than, say, files in the
YAHOO account. Even so, who's to say that files from SYS need to be
restored more often or more quickly that any YAHOO file.

In any case, with today's tape technology, where retrieval of any group of
files from any spot on DDS or DLT tape is quick, the raison-d'etre for such
file placement strategy disappears - assuming there ever really was a good
reason.


At 10:37 AM 2001-03-06 -0800, Michael Hone wrote:
>In the 6.5 System Software Maintenance Manual, you are directed to backup
>the system as follows:
>
>STORE @[log in to unmask],@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@.SYS;*T;DIRECTORY;SHOW
>
>What is the practical benefit over:
>
>STORE @[log in to unmask]@;*T;DIRECTORY;SHOW ?
>
>And if one does a full system backup every night, is there a benefit to the
>former over the latter?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Michael
>
>
>Michael Hone
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