* Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com) wrote: > Don't back up your mail spool. It changes so frequently that a backup of it > will be useless anyway. whoa whoa whoa... no backup? I can see not doing a mail-spool backup of your raw untouched spool, but setup a cron-job to archive and backup every so often.. If you always have the raw spool, there's always a way to retrieve what's lost, don't just not backup your mail-spool... I keep a duplicate mbox file that get's *everything* just for reference and it's archived.. Not to say I'm perfect and never lost anything due to not backing up, but I've realized over the past 2 months, that running systems, don't like big hardware moves, and linux is a pain... freebsd is now running again, and unfortunately evey *my* backup cd has disappeared... I'm sure I will come across it one day when I've already re-configured my system.. One thing though, after fine-tuning a stable bsd system, and getting it running as an X-workstation I don't see the appeal to linux other than it's currently supported DRI implementation of X4.1.0 Sorry, ranting and got off topic... time to go get some coffee in my arse. Oh yeah, and mandrake sucks for anything but running your screensaver... I honestly hope the gamers edition is better cuz 8.1 steps all-over itself... sorry.. </rant> Jay > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com] > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 7:26 PM > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: [TCLUG] Backing up a very busy server? > > > > > > Mail server is getting very busy. Any recommendations on how > > to prevent errors like this? > > > > 1011206 05:09:24|2007|root|[W013] > > "/var/spool/mqueue/q3/xffB5Mw6E10045": can't > > stat: errno = 2, No such file or directory > > > > Using BRU right now. If a switch to Amanda will fix it, > > enough said. Where are in the processing of making the switch. > > > > -- > > Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 > > http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list Thomas J. Hudak Unix Admin http://tcos.stderr.net SMS - 6123181967 at airmessage.net VM / Pager - 6123181967 at airmessage.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011207/008e13b2/attachment.pgp