[Dovecot] backup strategy

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Steve Lindemann <steve at marmot.org>:

> curious... I've been using dump for decades (unix and linux) without  
> any problems on mounted filesystems.

Well, any known/observed problems...

> Anyone with half an ounce of common sense will use due caution  
> backing up "live" data, regardless of the tool used, and will prefer  
> to work with umounted filesystems when possible, but it isn't an  
> imperative, nor always practical.

Only if you want a good backup of the data...   Okay, I will admit that
I sometimes do backups with dump on live filesystems also...  But
I know what I'm doing, and why...

But again, this is getting off topic... So enough about this...

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Go Longhorns!