16 Feb
2011
16 Feb
'11
9:12 p.m.
On 2011-02-16 11:42 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 15.2.2011, at 22.16, Maria Arrea wrote:
*2ยบ 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