Le 15/09/2011 17:17, Leonardo Rodrigues a écrit : > > Hi, > > I need to change the disks on my postfix machine and i do not have a > spare machine, so i'll basically take out the old disk, put the new ones > and reinstall the machine. > > in that scenario, is it OK to backup the /var/spool/postfix folder > on the old machine and simply drop it on the new machine ?
please "stay with us". you said "I do nt have a spare machine" then "... on the nwe machine"?? do you mean the new disk? > Will that > keep the messages that were on the queue ? Of course, i'll completly > remove the var/spool/postfix on the new machine before doing that, im > not thinking on merging queues in anyway, i just want to get the queue > from the old machine and drop on the new one. > > will that work as expected, or it wont ? > you need to to stop postfix first, then you can copy the queue.