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[Jerry Haltom]

But if one can just reconstruct the indexes, what damnage can be done by
just copying them? What critical information do they hold?


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:54, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Simon Matter wrote:
> 
> > Would be nice to have something like a 'cyrus_freeze' command. Maybe there
> > is a way to do this with SIGSTOP/SIGCONT?
> 
> At this point, you might as well just kill the server, since you won't be
> able to do almost anything for the duration of the snapshot.
> 
> In practice, undumping the mailbox list is probably a good idea, but not
> strictly necessary (atleast with skiplist).  If a mailbox winds up out of
> sync with its indexes, when you restore it you can just reconstruct the
> mailbox and all will be well (if you have to reconstruct the entire
> mailstore, obviously this will take some time).
> 
> -Rob
> 
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