On Thu, 24 May 2007, Hans Moser wrote:
Hi!
Does anyone actually backup and restore Cyrus IMAPd with Tivoli Storage
Manager (TSM)?
As far as my backup admin told me, the restore tool only shows file names, I
cannot see file content. So if user comes and tells
"I lost my email x from user y, which arrived 2 weeks ago."
I (obviously) cannot ask him about the filename. And cannot search the backup
store for user b's email address. :(
A workaround would be to restore the complete folder to /tmp/ and grep there
for the right mail file. hm...
I have a prototype system I'm working on that does backups with TSM (via LVM
snapshot).
For restores, I have a prototype script that restores the entire mailbox in
question to a subdirectory of the user's main mailbox and names it
RESTORE.MAILBOX.YYYYMMDD and then does a cyrus "reconstruct -r -f" to make the
mailbox seen by cyrus.
The idea being that if somebody loses something, we restore the entire mailbox
and the user can figure out what e-mails they want and can move them back to the
right place themselves. Something will automatically delete the
RESTORE.MAILBOX.YYYYMMDD after a couple of days.
Eventually I plan on having a web GUI in front of the restore request and
everything can happen automatically.
-nik
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