Hans Moser wrote:
Hi!
Does anyone actually backup and restore Cyrus IMAPd with Tivoli Storage
Manager (TSM)?
We've use TSM coupled with the snapshot capability of our NetApp filer
to do backups here. The system was automated for awhile with a simple
web frontend, but some changes on the backend have rendered it manual again.
We restore the given mailbox( or mailboxes) underneath a heading called
"restored", subscribe the user to it, set the permissions to be lrs for
the user, and let them move the mail out that they want. After a fixed
amount of time (two weeks) we then destroy the restored mailbox.
The procedure is roughly (using restoring my inbox (only) as an example):
1) Copy the info from tape to the location of the new mailbox
dsmc restore -ina /var/spool/imap/P/user/melson/ /var/spool/imap/P/restored/
2) Reconstruct the mailbox.
reconstruct -p default restored.melson
(I have no idea why I'm not using -f for this.. wrote the stuff months
ago when I was still getting the hang of some of this so I may have
simply not known any better)
Then you just set permissions as you would like, subscribe the user to
the mailbox, and let them know that there's a restored mailbox waiting
for them.
It's worked fairly well for us.
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Matt Elson
Unix Systems Administrator
Wesleyan University
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