But if one can just reconstruct the indexes, what damnage can be done by just copying them? What critical information do they hold?
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:54, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Simon Matter wrote: > > > Would be nice to have something like a 'cyrus_freeze' command. Maybe there > > is a way to do this with SIGSTOP/SIGCONT? > > At this point, you might as well just kill the server, since you won't be > able to do almost anything for the duration of the snapshot. > > In practice, undumping the mailbox list is probably a good idea, but not > strictly necessary (atleast with skiplist). If a mailbox winds up out of > sync with its indexes, when you restore it you can just reconstruct the > mailbox and all will be well (if you have to reconstruct the entire > mailstore, obviously this will take some time). > > -Rob > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper -- Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback Plus, Inc.
