-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 23.08.2005 at 11:01 +0200, Paul Bijnens 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. The server in question is a fairly generic Debian/Sarge mail server, RAID setup for disks, 2.6 kernel. And /var/mail is on its own ext3 partition. You mention that it works with LVM. Do snapshots *require* LVM? Dave. - -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 N 51.7518, W 1.2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDCvA5bpQs/WlN43ARAv4cAKCmduKWAwWn4ju6f3Z6Js4s31kpKACfUA9G px5PyDzKKlRTDoy6JmZwmcQ= =MeB5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
