My 2 cents.
I had a Digital Ocean snapshot that turned out to be unbootable. (I have no
explanation.) My snapshot procedure since then is I shut down all the services,
power down, take the snapshot and restore from that snapshot.
Me paranoid? Yep. I also keep two snapshots, both of which have
On 09/04/17 20:52, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so
> that I can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes?
> The pause only has to be momentary, while the snapshot is taken, but the
> files need to be in a consistent sta
Thanks to all for the replies. This is an existing somewhat elderly setup
and I don't want to make major changes (file system, LMTP etc) at this
stage. For postfix, Wietse's suggestion should work nicely. I guess I
should build in a delay of a second or two after issuing the command to
ensure that
> On Apr 9, 2017, at 4:52 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:
>
> Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so that
> I can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes?
The "best" way is to use a file system that supports snapshots, such as
"zfs". Otherwise, what
Dominic Raferd:
> Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so that I
> can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes? The pause
> only has to be momentary, while the snapshot is taken, but the files need
> to be in a consistent state. If anyone also knows
On 2017-04-09 10:52:58 (+0200), Dominic Raferd
wrote:
Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so
that I
can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes? The
pause
only has to be momentary, while the snapshot is taken, but the files
need
to be in a cons
Am 09.04.2017 um 10:52 schrieb Dominic Raferd:
> Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so
> that I can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes?
> The pause only has to be momentary, while the snapshot is taken, but the
> files need to be in a consiste
Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so that I
can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes? The pause
only has to be momentary, while the snapshot is taken, but the files need
to be in a consistent state. If anyone also knows the way to pause Dovecot
