Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24,

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Gavin Carr
Have you read Brackup::Manual::Overview? Your questions are all answered in the man pages there or linked from there. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:21:47PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: Brackup will backup to local disk,

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user access load. Which in turn

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: [1] Changeset and data/system model over time relation mapping for an adaptive system sizing feedback loop! ( how'se that for buzzword injection! ) --- Well if you run vacum on a Postgres DB then all that goes to the crapper... So

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread John Doe
From: Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com is it possible with brackup to back it up to a different server on the same lan instead of /backup . Is there any documentation on the same . It apparently support: Brackup::Target::Amazon backup to Amazon's S3 service

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but human error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge mailbox size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he want to recover them , the contacts us as we are supposed to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Smith
Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. You're certainly welcome to try it!

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.comwrote: Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as

[CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff and impasync . But its is not

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: Hi We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB space )  . We have tried

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
2010/2/24 Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
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Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 02/24/2010 11:21 AM, Agnello George wrote: -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 4805500 Feb 24 16:23 4799. -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 22920 Feb 24 16:23 cyrus.cache -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 204 Dec 10 16:27 cyrus.header

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: You might want to try

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24,

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff and

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 01:07 PM, Agnello George wrote: yes just spoke to my senior and confrimed that this was alreday tried out a delayed replication is possible . but the current suitation is we need to take backup on the same server on a different partition /backup :( you can replicate to a

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . You've stated things in terms of

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Agnello George wrote: Hi We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/24/2010 1:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . You've stated things in

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as