Dave Ewart wrote:
3. Copy in a robust fashion from the mail spools to a temporary location prior to the backup job, so that these copies of the spools will not change; then backup the copies rather than the 'live' spools. The "robust fashion" would work in a similar way to how locking mail spools operates when appending/deleting messages.
I use filesystem snapshots. Taking a snapshot is only matter of seconds. I make a snapshot a few minutes before the amanda backup starts. Amanda then makes a backup of that snapshot instead Your OS has to support is however. Solaris >2.8 (2.8 plain needs patches) can do it. Linux with lvm1 can do it too; Linux with lvm2 is not yet stable enough for doing snapshots. (I have lvm2 snapshots working on one system without problems, but on other systems it makes the computer crash; maybe related to amount of memory and/or system load: the system where it does work has lots of RAM, and is very quiet in the night.) Mail me for the scripts to create a snapshot if you're interested. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************