From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 5:11:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A68A37B71A for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Received: from ocsinternet.com (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA88580; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:09:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3ABB4D18.3C480DF@ocsinternet.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:18:16 -0500 From: Mikel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ostap Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/mail backup References: <3ABB2A0A.AF20BB18@ukrpost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok I have a question for you how many user mailboxes are we talking about? Cheers, Mikel ostap wrote: > hello > i'm interested in a way of making backups of a /var/mail directory > on a running freebsd mail server, or may be just keeping it in sync > with some another dir to prevent data loss in case of hdd failure. > the obvious problem is that this information is constantly changing > and may be file locks or something like that should be implemented > during backup/ > syncing procedure. will the tool like rsync do this job correcly? > can anyone make this clear to me? > > thank you > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message