On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, plug bert wrote:
> Suggestion naman...i'm thinking of ways to back up
> mail data on my rh box running sendmail. Correct me if
> i'm wrong, but i think the only way i can make a
> consistent backup is by stopping sendmail, telling all
> users not to use mail, then back up /var/spool/mail
> and /var/spool/mqueue.
Unless ur using the cool Veritas FS,
yep... init 1 or stopping sendmail and
backup the thing say, using tar.
caveats, it's still better to go to single
mode coz even if you stop sendmail
or any mta for that matter, pine has
the ability to access /var/spool/mail/<username>
directly.
> What happens exactly when a user is reading his/her
> mail while backup is in progress? Will i get garbled
> mailboxes, or is there some write locking involved?
regards,
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Andre M. Varon, CSA
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