Hi I am having some problems on creating backups for /var/lib/imap on a Linux 2.4.22 system, with cyrus-imapd-2.1.15 (Mandrake RPM), using LVM and the xfs_freeze feature of XFS.
This is the sequence of commands used: xfs_freeze -f /var/lib/imap lvcreate [... parameters ...] xfs_freeze -u /var/lib/imap The problem is that the ``xfs_freeze -u'' is not working, and the filesystem remains frozen, which causes the server load average to raise up to around 400. This only happens with /var/lib/imap (we are using the same commands on /var/spool/imap without problems), and it does not happen all the time. The script that makes the backup runs from cron at 4:02am localtime. I was wondering if there could be any conflict with ctl_deliver, which is run at 4:00am, but the logs indicate that ctl_deliver only takes a few seconds to run. I've search the archives and found people saying that the xfs_freeze command works fine for them, so I wonder if there's any step I could be missing. Best regards and thanks in advance, Andre Nathan --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
