Hi Jeffrey, Sandy & Andreas, Thank you all 3 of you for the inspiring information. I think i will brew something together from your 3. Andreas, is it possible for you to send me this script ? I really don't have enough knowledge to make this my own, adapt, perhaps. Thanks again to you all ! Franky. On Wednesday 29 December 2004 23:36, Andreas Philipp wrote:
El Mié 29 Dic 2004 16:54, Sandy Drobic escribió:
Recently I also started using cyrus-imap and am looking for a backup concept. As my server is not heavily used I can afford to shut down cyrus for the duration of the backup, but I will probably end up using lvm snapshots for the backup to avoid the downtime.
Here's the link to the backup recommendations of the cyruswiki: http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
The important configuration info of my cyrus server is in a MySQL database, which can be easily backed up without hassle. Other than that, I run a shell script as a daily cron job which simply packs the mail spool into a tar file, and at the beginning of every week it rotates and gzips the tar file from the week before. This makes sure I have an archived copy of my mail messages, which is all I care about. Attributes of the mail messages (like the 'Seen' status) may be lost if I had to recover a server from the archived mail spool, but I prefer such a simple solution without necessity to stop the server. -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia
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