Matthias Nagel via Postfix-users wrote in <12336799.O9o76ZdvQC@matthias-pc>: |Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2023, 19:01:23 CET schrieb postfix--- via \ |Postfix-users: |>> I am looking for an option to temporarily pause delivery via LMTP \ |>> and defer mail while the Dovecot mailboxes are being backed-up in \ |>> order to get an consistent state. |> |> Just take dovecot LMTP offline. Isn't the default behavior of postfix \ |> to queue undeliverable mail and once its able to deliver, it will? \ |> No need to bounce public mail with a 4xx error.
Use a filesystem with snapshot capabilities like ZFS or BTRFS. More can it now, on FreeBSD for example UFS, on DragonFly Hammer. Then copy from the snapshot, and remove the snapshot. Or base your entire backup strategy on filesystem snapshots, that is the road i went. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
