Greetings all; Pursuant to a conversation on the dovecot list about the relatively long times involved in rebuilding the dovecot.index file when it gets out of sync.
It strikes me that if the backup program could be co-erced into sending a signal when it starts to backup a named directory, a signal that holds it until the processing of incoming mail has been stopped and the ack signal that it has been stopped sent back to amanda, effectively freezing the contents of what would normally be an active directory, so that the email corpus AND all its indexes would then be in sync when the backup is done. This would make any recovery efforts later into a considerable smoother action. I can see where such a feature could also be useful for a database of most any sort, mail being only an example. How feasible would it be to add this capability to amanda? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
