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Josh,

I’m actually on 10.3 still with no plan to move anytime soon since the server as it is does everything I need it to and is running quite smoothly. So a 10.3 article is not a problem. I was mainly worried about dynamic content getting corrupted during a backup. My entire list of sites is run off of the mySQL database so the sites would basically have to go down if I needed to turn off mySQL and apache in order to do a backup. Turning off mail would not be an issue as I already have backup mail services to handle situations like that. So could I leave mySQL on when doing a backup or would I be inviting a disaster?

Aaron, thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.

Jamie

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Thanks for the reply.

One question. Do you have to turn all of the services off in order to make the clone? Will doing a clone while services are running cause a problem?

Jamie

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Elgert,

I realize it was 4 years ago you posted this but it came in very handy for me. Thanks.

Jamie

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Figured this one out. SpamAssassin had created a lock file in my home directory informing anything that tried to access the database that I was still actively using it. Deleting that file has brought everything back to normal.

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I’ll second this.

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I hadn’t realized that there was a new version after the 1.0 update. Since I don’t really have anything important pointed to the server yet I went ahead and turned off all of the services ran the 1.1 update, rebooted, and then turned all of the services I am using back on again. After that my email accounts were properly displayed again.

Thank you again for the tips.

Jamie

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I believe I had run all of the latest security updates before starting to setup the server… Is that a problem?

Jamie

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OK so as I posted this the test account that I had set up to be sent an email and then checked every 10 minutes while I worked on this stuff suddenly started working. So maybe I did parts of this correctly?

I’m still feeling like there is maybe a problem because of a few things though. First when I view mail services in the Server Admin app (I forgot to mention that I put both mail.mydomain.com and mydomain.com in the Local Host Aliases area though I wasn’t sure that was needed) and I look at accounts it says 0 even though I have the admin account setup to be able to use mail services. Shouldn’t this be considered an account?

Another question. It is fine to have multiple MX records for different domains so I can have email address and account for any domain I want correct?

Jamie

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Thanks for the reply.

I really shouldn’t write those things or try to do this stuff so late at night. I apologize for the 1:30 in the morning rant. I reread the DNS article this afternoon and it made much more sense the second time around. Hopefully I will have more luck tonight.

I am just happy I found this site. It is invaluable.

Jamie

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