Re: Not backing up directory /tmp

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 04:44  AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Anyone see an issue with only backing up directory /tmp, in the ifs, 
> only
> every 8 weeks when doing a dedicated save?

Why back it up at all? It is used for transient data (files containing 
PIDs, Unix-domain sockets, etc). These things are created by server 
jobs when they start and are meaningless once they have stopped. There 
should be nothing persistent in /tmp.

On Unix /tmp is generally cleared automatically at IPL.

Would you attempt to save QTEMP?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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