NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NIS+
Administering NIS+
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If your transaction log contains only three entries, then your tables
are fully checkpointed. If your transaction logs contain more than
three entries, issue the following command to checkpoint them:
nisping -Ca
5. Use your favorite backup utility (tar[1], dump[1M], etc.) to back up
the following:
•The /var/nis directory
•The /etc/.rootkey file
• The flat files you created by dumping the NIS+ tables