Franky Van Liedekerke writes: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:50:37 -0200 > Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Copy the queue? From the FAQ: > > > > 7.5. How do I back up and restore the queue disk? > > > > Answer: You can't. ... Another difficulty is that messages in the queue > > must have filenames that match their inode numbers. > > Wron answer ... you can copy the queue to another disk easily, you just > need a program that renames the messages so they have the correct names > again. One such a tool is queue-fix (search on > http://www.qmail.org/top.html), works perfectly and has proven it's use > already quite some times to me.
Not the wrong answer :-) I would like to point out that the original recipe "stop qmail, copy the queue, create symlink, start qmail" doesn't work. I think it's important to mention the inode issue, and suggest a work around (as you have done). Regards, -- Adriano
