I know this has been asked a few times. I've gone over the questions, but am wanting to make sure I fully understand some parts, to make sure what I am doing is actually useful. I have a Cyrus installation (RHEL 4 rpm). It works, all setup etc. It automatically creates a gz textfile of the mailboxlist files every day etc. I would now like to create an offsite backup of the two directories I've read need backing up. I've used rsync many a time for stuff like this so figure I'll use it again. I don't want downtime to do the backup, so need to know what kinds of problems can happen by running an rsync of the spool directory. Obviously if the rsync takes anything but moments, there is a good chance that it won't catch some of the mail. I'm okay with that. The rsync will run each night, and if it isn't all there that's okay. Missing a handful of emails is not a problem in our books. So if I have the /var/lib/imap directory, which contains the berkeley dbs, and the text version of the mailbox list. Plus a near recent copy of the spool directories. I would be able to pretty much restore a copy roughly 24 hours old in the case of a major failure. Are these assumptions correct? Or not stopping the cyrus server will make my spool directory grow a litter of kittens and make it impossible to restore a functioning server albeit potentially missing a few emails... Any feedback would be useful. -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions http://www.gnat.ca/ T 250.385.4613 C 250.893.4613 ---- 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
