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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Jerry Durand <jd...@interstellar.com> on 2007/08/30 23:29:09 UTC

Re: SA locked up and seemingly dumped the DB we've been building

At 02:21 PM 8/30/2007, FH wrote:
>Just in case someone runs into something similar in the future... restoring
>the DB files from backup (and running sa-learn --sync once they were in
>place)
>seems to have done the trick. The main question that remains outstanding is
>whether or not the "best practice" is to do things this way (using a script
>to
>tar/zip the bayes files and then dump them to tape [as part of a regular
>backup]) or if using the sa-learn --backup > file is better, or does it not
>matter?
>
>Thanks,
>Forrest

Last year I had a server crash (OS X couldn't boot at all) and I had 
to start from scratch.  Reloading the files from my backup worked just fine.



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