Re: backup imapd with TSM

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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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