Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Elver Loho
Hi, I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. What other options do I have? For MySQL I've set up master-slave replication. All

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Boutilier
On 06/16/2010 06:08 AM, Elver Loho wrote: Hi, I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. What other options do I have? For

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Elver Loho elver.l...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. What other options do I have? For

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Roland Baum
For non-HA situations, you can do a 2-stage rsync-backup once a day: 1 ) copy all cyrus-folders (/var/spool/cyrus, /var/lib/cyrus etc) via rsync to a backup-folder 2 a) shutdown cyrus 2 b) rsync the same folders to complete the snapshot 2 c) restart cyrus This is a feasible solution with a

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:45:10AM +0200, Roland Baum wrote: For non-HA situations, you can do a 2-stage rsync-backup once a day: 1 ) copy all cyrus-folders (/var/spool/cyrus, /var/lib/cyrus etc) via rsync to a backup-folder 2 a) shutdown cyrus 2 b) rsync the same folders to complete the

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 06/16/2010 05:45 AM, Roland Baum wrote: For non-HA situations, you can do a 2-stage rsync-backup once a day: 1 ) copy all cyrus-folders (/var/spool/cyrus, /var/lib/cyrus etc) via rsync to a backup-folder 2 a) shutdown cyrus 2 b) rsync the same folders to complete the snapshot 2 c)

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Elver Loho
Replication looks to be the solution. Surprisingly I hadn't discovered it on my own. Many thanks to everyone for pointing it out! However, while setting it up, I noticed a really weird thing. When authentication fails on the master-initiated master-slave connection, master will block connections

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0300, Elver Loho wrote: Replication looks to be the solution. Surprisingly I hadn't discovered it on my own. Many thanks to everyone for pointing it out! However, while setting it up, I noticed a really weird thing. When authentication fails on the

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Elver Loho
Hey Bron, I'm running Cyrus on Fedora 12, with the version number being 2.3.16-3.fc12 according to yum. By the way, how can I verify that replication is working and is up-to-date? When does sync_client fail and what does it leave behind that I should be worried about? Can you share your scripts

Recomendations for a Migration of a Cyrus mailStore with 70K users.

2010-06-16 Thread Nestor A Diaz
Hello Cyrus People. I have been always a proud user of the cyrus email system, currently my larger cyrus installation is about 70K users, which have been working fine, however i need to make some adjustems to improve the resposiviness of the mailstore. At the begining i use only a default

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:27:34PM +0300, Elver Loho wrote: Hey Bron, I'm running Cyrus on Fedora 12, with the version number being 2.3.16-3.fc12 according to yum. That's about as modern as it gets for now :) By the way, how can I verify that replication is working and is up-to-date?

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2010/6/16 Elver Loho elver.l...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. What other options do I have? For