[plug] backup script

[Trevor Phillips]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 16:47, Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> In fact, I'm currently running:
>
> # sync && sync && sync && \

Something I've always been meaning to ask - is there ANY reason to do more 
than one sync? I mean, one sync flushes filesystem buffers, so is there any 
reason to do it multiple times in a row?

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