On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:17:44AM -0500, Kevin Old wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a backup script run on my server each night that tries to > backup items in my /root/.spamassassin directory and it seems that > they are being accessed at the time tar is trying to archive them. I > get: > > /bin/tar: /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen: file changed as we read it > /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > I'm sure others have run into this, and wondered how they got around it. > > I'm running SA 3.0.1 with the latest MailScanner on a RH 9 box. > > The only option I see is that when backing these directories up I shut > down MailScanner/SA...
With SA 3.0 you can run: sa-learn --backup > backup.txt This will dump the bayes databases in text form, which you can then backup. It should get the proper read locks and what not. Michael
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