On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:19:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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? > I suspect a difficult problem would be how to get the multiple programs that modify the named directory to honor flag.
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