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Flush all I/O's to disk

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Is there a command to flush cached I/O out to the actual disk? We have a need to do backup and do not necessarily want to unmound the file system. Is there another way to get the cache emptied out to disk????? (aix 4.3.3)
 
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Execute "sync" command twice or thrice
 
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