LJ Mace wrote:
Last week or maybe the week before someone wiped out our 200 pack. With the
help of some friends on this and other boards I have put it MOSTLY back
together. It boots and things work so now I'm putting some non critical(or what
I'd call non critical) files back where they belong.
This morning I was using tar to create a tarball of /spool so I can lay it
back into /var/spool. When I went to tar it(-czf) it came back with:
tar -czf xspoolo.tgz *
tar: postfix/private/rewrite: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/bounce: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/defer: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/trace: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/verify: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/proxymap: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/smtp: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/relay: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/error: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/local: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/virtual: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/lmtp: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/anvil: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/maildrop: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/cyrus: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/uucp: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/ifmail: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/bsmtp: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/vscan: socket ignored
tar: postfix/private/procmail: socket ignored
tar: postfix/public/cleanup: socket ignored
tar: postfix/public/flush: socket ignored
tar: postfix/public/showq: socket ignored
What the heck is it telling me??
It doesn't back up sockets. Those get created when needed.
Note that results of backing up and restoring open files are
"undefined." If you are dealing in mail when you back up, you may have
damaged mail files, and if you restore, you may send duplicate mail.
This last also applies if you back up unsent mail.
What to do? Your choice. Probably, sending all mail before backup is
impractical - some "next hop" is likely to be down.
There may be similar considerations for other software.
--
Cheers
John
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