On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, James Miller wrote: > Rob, I'm still abit confused about what's needed to get cyrus (including > index files) into a consistent state -- ready for a backup/snapshot.. etc. > etc.
Right now? Stop it, snapshot the volume, start it again. It should take a few seconds, which is an acceptable downtime at, say, 04:00 local time... at least for most people. Then you can do whatever you need to the snapshot volume (compress, dump to tape, whatever), and release the snapshot. Anything else will not be 100% consistent. But, if you can live with seen-state loss and the need to run reconstruct on recovered mailboxes, you don't really need 100% consistency. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
