> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:29 AM > To: לאון קולצ'ינסקי; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: backup for bayesian DB > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Leon Kolchinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:54 AM > > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: backup for bayesian DB > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > What is the preferred to backup the following bayesiab DB > > files? What is the suggested frequency to make backups of the > > following DBase's? > > > If you are using db files, sa-learn will do a backup of the bayes db for > you. > > (for a flush and expire first, see 'man sa-learn') > > For auto-whitelist, I think all you need to do make sure you don't have > it opened (maybe create the mutex yourself) and bzip or make a > compressed copy. > > If using SQL (use sql, its less prone to corruption), use the SQL > servers backup routines. > > How often? > You need to back it up just before you lose the original... >
I thought of disaster recovery backup. I've read the man pages but still not clear about backing up Bayesian DB files (I don't use SQL DB for now). 1) Is the following command is legit? sa-learn --sync --showdots --backup > backup.txt Is this command make backup of bayes_seen, bayes_toks, user_prefs, auto-whitelist altogether? 2) Should I stop SA(amavisd-new) from running during this backup? 3) Where can I read amore about AWL backup and .mutex files (I'm not familiar with those)? 4) Where can I find bayes expiration configuration? Didn't see it in my local.cf? What are the default values and how to change those? > > > > # ls -l /var/spool/amavis/.spamassassin/ > > total 14366 > > drwx------ 2 vscan vscan 280 Dec 11 15:18 . > > drwx------ 1 vscan root 456 Dec 10 11:29 .. > > -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 2650112 Dec 11 15:52 auto-whitelist > > -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 6 Dec 11 15:52 auto-whitelist.mutex > > -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 5466 Dec 11 15:50 bayes.mutex > > -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 74520 Dec 11 15:52 bayes_journal > > -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 10498048 Dec 11 15:50 bayes_seen > > -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 5341184 Dec 11 15:50 bayes_toks > > -rw-r--r-- 1 vscan vscan 1547 Oct 26 09:24 user_prefs > > Regards, Leon
