status and a new snapshot release?

[.rp]

On 2 Dec 2004 at 23:31, David Relson wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:29:34 -0800
> .rp wrote:
> 
> > On 30 Nov 2004 at 3:57, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > 
> > >  we have no
> > > _decent_ backup script or recovery documentation),
> > 
> > backup script for which items?
> 
> wordlist.db
> 
> Up thru 0.92.8, the wordlist (database) was a single file and could be
> backed up by
> 
>     cp wordlist.db wordlist.db.new
> or  bogoutil -d wordlist.db >wordlist.txt
> 
> With the release of 0.93.0, the wordlist is part of a database
> environment, i.e. a directory with multiple files, notably wordlist.db,
> __db.00?, DB_CONFIG, and logfile.00*.  Using 'cp' is no longer
> sufficient -- at the very least because the database needs to be copied
> a page at a time to preserve its integrity.  The order for copying
> logfiles and database file is also important.  A group of helper scripts
> and bogoutil options have been added to assist in tasks like copying,
> compacting, resizing, etc.  The early ones are on SourceForge, while the
> newest ones are only in CVS.  The release of 0.93.2 is planned for this
> weekend (likely Saturday) and will include them all.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> David
> 
> 
Why is there is such resistance to shutting down sendmail (or whatever the 
MTA is) when doing a backup? Just shut it down, do the backup (with cp or 
db_copy or whatever) then restart.