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Backups need to be done with everyone logged out of the MC Software. |
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UNIX System Backup
| Daily backups are the most important procedure you can do for your system. Without a proper
DAILY backup, you are gambling with your company's time and money. Anyone who has had to restore
a backup can attest to its importance. If you have not been doing a daily backup, start right away!
Mortgage Computer requires a daily backup of the data files for all customers!!! What to Back Up and When DAILY WEEKLY MONTHLY BEFORE LOADING A RELEASE |
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Backups need to be done with everyone logged out of the MC Software. |
| How to Do a Back Up in UNIX
MC has provided a menu-driven backup in the MC package. Path (09.11.07) to backup and (09.11.08) to restore. This process gives you the option to backup MC programs and/or MC data files, or the ALL option will backup everything on the system. This does a UNIX tar backup. We recommend a tar backup for disaster recovery if you will need to restore on another brand of UNIX other than the one you are currently running on. If you will be doing your disaster recovery on the same brand of UNIX you are currently on, the built-in UNIX backup that comes with your system will run faster and may be more reliable than the tar backup. Tar by default does not compress or test the backup you have written. The built-in backups can do this if the option is selected. Many users have written custom backup scripts that can be run from the UNIX prompt #. This is an effective option if the MC backup does not fit within your system requirements. For assistance with custom backup scripts, please contact our system support staff. If you need to send MC a backup of your system, we would prefer a tar backup because we can normally load it on any of our UNIX systems. The backup process that comes with your system requires the restore to be done on the same brand and sometimes the same version of UNIX as the backup was created on. |
