[Dovecot] backup strategy

[Rick Romero]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 13:35 -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 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...

Right.  Cause anyone with a decent filesystem is using snapshots
anyways ;)

Rick