RE: how to backup a cyrus server?

["Robert T. Covell" <rcovell@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

 

Since this worked we most likely will go with this (Knock on wood), but the above is a bit more streamlined (rsync).

 

-Bob

 

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From: info-cyrus-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:info-cyrus-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rafael Mahecha
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:50 PM
To: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: how to backup a cyrus server?

 

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 database corruption.

 

What is the best way to back up the server? shutdown cyrus for a while, then snap shot it, and then back up to tivoli.... or should I just be able to back up the running server directly to tivoli?

 

what other software can I use to backup?

 

Thanks

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Rafael Mahecha

 

Email / Systems Administrator
JSU OIM - Web Services
mahecha@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.jsums.edu
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