[gmx-users] multiple backups

Anton Feenstra feenstra at chem.vu.nl
Tue Jul 27 16:01:07 CEST 2004


Nguyen Hoang Phuong wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Anton Feenstra wrote:
> 
> 
>>Berk Hess wrote:
>>
>>>So I propose to go back to the old system which has only
>>>a single backup for each file.
>>
> 
> in some cases the runs would go even faster because less disk
> i/o if we could suppress the writing of the backup files.

Backups are made before the run starts, and take virtually no time
since nothing is written except for a new filename.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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