On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:29:27PM +0800, sunhux G wrote: > >You should not directly manipulate the postfix queue directories. > >man postsuper for the correct invocation of the -d option. > > If there's a hard disk crash or corruption of /var/spool/postfix/..., > can we restore from tapes the /var partition & is there any > special recovery of postfix needed?
So long as Postfix is not running when the queue is restored, and the queue starts empty (you are not adding old queue files to a queue that has received new queue files) you can restore, and then start Postfix. -- Viktor.