On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:47, Timo Veith wrote: > Which way would you recommend for copying: rsync, tar, cp or whatever? I > am concerned about the databases that cyrus uses. Will they they be > consistent afterwards. Is there anything I have to be aware of or do > before? I don't want to break things just because I am trying to do a > backup.
The DB's should always be consistent on disk, so if you do a snapshot then you can back it up however you like. The critical thing would be that you did a snapshot though.. (and your snapshot implementation works :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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