Re: [SLE] backup imap-server
From: Franky Goethals (franky.goethals_at_telenet.be)
Date: 12/30/04
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:33:04 +0100
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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