://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Most people just make a regular backup of the filesystem using
whatever tools they normally use. The only trick is to export
your mailboxes.db to a flat text file in order to back it up (which
you should be doing periodically anyways
] On Behalf Of Nik Conwell
Sent: 05 December 2006 12:05
To: Cyrus User's Mailing List
Subject: Re: how to backup a cyrus server?
ctl_mboxlist -d for a text mailboxes file, ctl_cyrusdb -c to
checkpoint, a sync, and then a lvcreate --snapshot --size 10G --name
lv_cyrus_snapshot /dev/vg_cyrus/lv_cyrus
-Original Message-
From: Guus Leeuw jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 December 2006 15:03
To: 'Nik Conwell'; 'Cyrus User's Mailing List'
Subject: RE: how to backup a cyrus server?
Normally, LVM builds a bitmap indicating which raw blocks it has to copy.
If the bit is down
I recently moved all my users from proprietary wemail (using local sendmail) to
latest cyrus and sendmail using lmtp.
I used to use tivoli to backup the old server (which was ok since no data bases
were involved)... but since cyrus has databases and such, I am concern about
file-locking and
to backup?
Check out the Cyrus Wiki page at:
http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Most people just make a regular backup of the filesystem using whatever
tools they normally use. The only trick is to export your mailboxes.db
to a flat text file in order to back it up (which
I have found a link to a process that might be helpful:
http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Aside from this, we have done it the old fashion way: tar zip on a
live system late at night. We just had a major server failure on
10/25/2006 which we were able to recover from
I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without
any
downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM
based
snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really
consistent from the aplications point of view.
And that's the big
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cyrus and
I think it's very problematic in production environment.
I think the point is that, short of using some of the replication stuff
from pre-2.3 in CVS, there's no
20, 2005 1:03 AM
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cyrus and
I think it's very problematic in production environment
I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without any
downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM based
snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really
consistent from the aplications point of view.
And that's the big
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Madden wrote:
I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without any
downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM based
snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really
consistent from the aplications
] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 12:44
PMTo: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.eduSubject: Tutorial on
how to backup/restore cyrus
Hello
All,
Could you please
point me to some good tutorial/manual on how to backup and restore Cyrus DB and
mailboxes.
Best
Regards
at:
http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Didi
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/spool/mail/imap \
/raid/mail_backup/tmpstore/varspoolimap/ $tmplog 21
#now we do an rsync to stabilize the backup
#shut down cyrus
echo stopping cyrus $tmplog 21
/usr/local/bin/cyrus stop $tmplog 21
#sync with rsync to get a 'stable' backup
#
rsync -a --delete /var/imap /raid
-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Regards
Andreas
Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Hi Leon,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
A) So if anyone have some scripts with the snapshot feature who can share them,
it would be nice to see them here.
B) Also any scripts with the minimal downtime for the cyrus are welcomed.
C) Any snapshot techniques (on reiserfs) are also very interesting
to backup/restore cyrus
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Hello again.
Is it really no one on the list can suggest me some backup/restore howto for
Cyrus mailboxes?
I believe that there are someguys on the list who can
Hello
All,
Could you please
point me to some good tutorial/manual on how to backup and restore Cyrus DB and
mailboxes.
Best
Regards,
Leon
Kolchinsky
Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
List Archives/Info: http
: Backup of Cyrus
I've been doing some reading of the list archives, and have learned that
my
current backup process is not sufficient. I'm hoping to get some feedback
on
my new proposed process. I only have about 20 users, total mail store is
under 300 MB. I can stop the services. I want
If someone have a solution to have a backup of cyrus...please post it on the
list
I have the same problem, how can i backup without stopping the mail
server...
alain
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Craig Ringer
Envoye : vendredi 12
Zitat von [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If someone have a solution to have a backup of cyrus...please post it on the
list
I have the same problem, how can i backup without stopping the mail
server...
alain
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Doug Koobs wrote:
I've been doing some reading of the list archives, and have learned that my
current backup process is not sufficient. I'm hoping to get some feedback on
my new proposed process. I only have about 20 users, total mail store is
under 300 MB. I can stop the services. I want to be
I've been doing some reading of the list archives, and have learned that
my
current backup process is not sufficient. I'm hoping to get some feedback
on
my new proposed process. I only have about 20 users, total mail store is
under 300 MB. I can stop the services. I want to be able to
Doug Koobs wrote:
I've been doing some reading of the list archives, and have learned that my
current backup process is not sufficient. I'm hoping to get some feedback on
my new proposed process. I only have about 20 users, total mail store is
under 300 MB. I can stop the services. I want to be
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