"Mauro M. TINELLI" wrote:
>
> Werner,
>
> I backup three OM servers every night (17GB, 42GB and 66GB of OMstore).
>
> On all of them, I:
>
> - stop the OM services,
> - split the mirrored copy of the OM FSs,
> - restart the OM services,
> - backup incrementally the copy /var/opt/openmail,
>   /var/opt/openmal/data...
>
> and
>
> - finally I merge the FSs again!
>
> I do use incremental backup. The consistency is garanteed by the fact
> that all the services have been stopped, before the splitting of the FS.
> By the way, I was using OmniBack-II before and I moved to ADSM because
> the "always incremental" policy reduces the backup time.
>
> It works ... and the restore too!
>
> Ciao Mauro

Ciao Mauro

Thanks a lot for your informations. How long have the OpenMail services
to be down (how long are the servers not available)?

Thank you for your info
Regards
Werner Nussbaumer