Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > If you are running FreeBSD 5, you should be able to make a filesystem snapshot > > and rsync from there. > > I suppose I should have commented on that ;) > > We're not running FreeBSD 5 on these production machines yet ... but it's > likely we will be soon, so I'm considering using snapshots. > > To my understanding, we still have to stop Cyrus while the snapshot is > being created (to ensure consistency) but since a snapshot takes a lot > less time than an rsync, this should be a big improvement. Once the > snapshot is created, rsync can take as long as necessary.
Actually it is not neccesary to stop Cyrus while the snapshot is created. If it tries to use the filesystem during that short period it will block until the snapshot is fully created. -- Christian Laursen _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
