Am 09.04.2017 um 10:52 schrieb Dominic Raferd: > Is there a best/recommended way to pause postfix local deliveries so > that I can take an LVM snapshot of the local mails for backup purposes? > The pause only has to be momentary, while the snapshot is taken, but the > files need to be in a consistent state. If anyone also knows the way to > pause Dovecot imap/pop3 similarly (as this could also be accessing the > same files), that would be helpful too.
why not simply write copies of all mails via bcc as archive and/or use dsync or rsync to write backups with dovecot ? Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG, 80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
