[Dovecot] Some questions about mdbox

[Charles Marcus]

On 2011-02-16 11:42 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 15.2.2011, at 22.16, Maria Arrea wrote:
>> *2º Disaster recovery: indexes & mail store mismatch*
>> 
>> When creating backups, indexes and mail store are in different
>> paths. My backup takes several hours, so indexes are copied BEFORE
>> mail stores. Is the backup consistent?

> Well, this isn't ideal.. Better would probably be if indexes were
> backed up after. Now it's possible that when restoring a mail there
> are some mails that aren't in index yet. You could run "doveadm
> force-resync" to make sure they're all added.

Best would be to store your mail on an LVM partition (or something else)
that supports snapshots, and take a snapshot, back it up, then release it.

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Best regards,

Charles