On 2011-02-16 11:42 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 15.2.2011, at 22.16, Maria Arrea wrote: >> *2ยบ Disaster recovery: indexes & mail store mismatch* >> >> When creating backups, indexes and mail store are in different >> paths. My backup takes several hours, so indexes are copied BEFORE >> mail stores. Is the backup consistent?
> Well, this isn't ideal.. Better would probably be if indexes were > backed up after. Now it's possible that when restoring a mail there > are some mails that aren't in index yet. You could run "doveadm > force-resync" to make sure they're all added. Best would be to store your mail on an LVM partition (or something else) that supports snapshots, and take a snapshot, back it up, then release it. -- Best regards, Charles