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<div>Ah, I didn't know there was a diff. b/w maildir and mdbox in terms of storage. I should have mentionned I am using Maildir.</div><div><br></div><div>Yassine.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, April 9, 2018, 1:35:15 PM GMT+1, Marc Stürmer <mail@marc-stuermer.de> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Am 2018-04-09 00:55, schrieb Steve Atkins:<div class="yqt0477591976" id="yqtfd48194"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Will a simple backup of all the files of an multi-dbox give me a<br clear="none">> consistent state when I recover, or do I need to do something (e.g.<br clear="none">> lock writes to the mailbox) while I run a backup?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you are doing this backup with a fully operational mail storage: no, <br clear="none">it won't. The reason is quite simple: mdbox saves the data of an email <br clear="none">in several files, so there's a good chance that those files might <br clear="none">slightly change during backup, while with Maildir all necessary data for <br clear="none">the restore is stored in the file names.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you want to do a consistent backup, you do need file system snapshots <br clear="none">and should make sure that this snapshot is consistent or to turn off the <br clear="none">mail store during backup completely.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But just doing rsync on the fly as with Maildir is just begging on your <br clear="none">side to run into problems sooner or later...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Greetings,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Marc<div class="yqt0477591976" id="yqtfd53201"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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