george at montco
Jul 2, 2009, 9:52 AM
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Try qmqtool
http://jeremy.kister.net/code/qmqtool/
Has some other very useful features as well.
On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Andrew Richards wrote:
> On Monday 29 June 2009, Marcus Bointon wrote:
>> I'm configuring a backup system for a qmail server. I want to
>> exclude the mail queue from the backup - if I exclude
>> /var/qmail/queue/*, will qmail automatically recreate all the
>> subdirectories it needs after a restore?
>
> No - but see below.
>
>> If not, is there some
>> command to have qmail recreate those directories
>
> Recompiling qmail (make setup check) will do that
>
>> , or do I need to
>> build a script for it? Any other advice about backing up a working
>> qmail setup?
>
> I think you've already worked out the key fact - that it's tricky (and
> often unnecessary) to backup the messages in the queue since they're
> tied to inode numbers - but that the rest of /var/qmail is useful.
>
> With a bit more detail you should be able to achieve what you want.
> /var/qmail/queue contains these directories:
> bounce info intd local lock mess pid remote todo
>
> You need to backup everything that's a directory (some of these have
> numbered sub-directories which you need) but not the files within
> them,
> with the exception of the lock directory: You'll need to be able to
> restore this, carefully maintaining rights and ownership. Note that
> the item "trigger" is in fact a named pipe (FIFO) - if this confuses
> your backup program you can just recreate this on restore instead with
> mknod, making sure you set the rights and ownership correctly. Finally
> the "tcpto" item can be reset at restore-time with the qmail-tcpok
> command.
>
> cheers,
>
> Andrew.
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