backup without stopping the imap server?

[John Madden]

> I'm using LVM snapshot on linux box and it work perfectly

But a filesystem-level snapshot isn't a clear copy of what's uncommitted to the DB's.

I still haven't heard how bad a situation it is if the db's in the 'db' directory
are corrupted -- what do you do then?

John





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John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden at ivytech.edu

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