On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:48:17AM -0600, jethro at freakzilla.com wrote:
>   Hey,
> 
> Quoting Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>:
> 
> > % mailq | wc
> >     680    3111   38830
> > 680 "transient" message. I think users would be pretty upset if I lost
> > almost 700 messages.
> 
> First of all, that's not good (; Is it because of downed hosts, or just slow 
> queue? 
> 
> Second, I'd say ignore the errors. All they're saying is the file was there 
> when it gathered up the information, and not there anymore when it went to back 
> it up - because it was already processed and delivered. 
> 
> If you want to try and avoid those messages, try backing up that directory 
> seperatly from the others. 
> 
> You'll still probably get those messages. The only way I can think of to avoid 
> them really is to shut down mail while backup's going on which it doesn't seem 
> like you'd want to do (;

And if you succeed in avoiding them you can have the symetric problems: files 
that are created after the backup program reads in the directory.

I can't see how can you fix this problem other that having a redundant server
holding onto a copy of a message for some time (a day should be fine).

florin

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