I chose that number based on scientific total lack of clue. Also,
that was the nearest round number of space left over in the cyrus VG
(~68G). I take it I overestimated a little :)
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Guus Leeuw jr. wrote:
I am just wondering why in the world you are using 10G for your
snapshot?
This is 10G worth of snapshot bitmap + changes to the source while the
snapshot is active. Hence you either have a *large* source, or a very
*active* mail system...?
Just my $0.02,
Guus
-----Original Message-----
From: info-cyrus-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:info-cyrus-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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. We then mount the snapshot
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