I have done an INSTALL many times from an SLT tape created while the
network is up - absent negative consequences.
In fact, I encourage my customers to create SLT tapes regularly -
especially those that use 3rd-party backup tools that are incapable of
integrating an SLT with the backup files on a single tape.
And nothing discourages creation of an SLT more than the requirement that
it be completed while the network is down.
At 07:03 PM 2001-08-28, Steve Dirickson (Volt) wrote:
> > Leaving the network up, per se, should have no undesirable
> > consequences on a full backup.
>
>The impression I got was that the original question had to do with HP's
>advice years ago to shut down NS when making an SLT, allegedly because
>not doing so would produce a tape that, if used for an INSTALL, would
>not contain everything needed to bring up the network on the
>newly-recreated system. I have no idea if there was actually an issue,
>or whether or not it still exists in current versions of MPE.
>
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