On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Vincent Fox wrote: > There are other commercial backup solutions however we were > already a NetBackup shop. So we simply set our backups to run > against the mail@yesterday path. A locally-written script managing > the snapshot process rolls @yesterday into a date-coded format > e.g. mail@20100214 before doing the new @yesterday snapshot. > It also destroys the 15th snapshot. > > The snapshot path is a "real" filesystem that > is traversible it's just read-only. So other backup > solutions like Amanda, star, etc. should work fine. > I expect everything except ufsdump should work > fine and really, doing backups on a hot filesystem with > as much activity as Cyrus seems pretty iffy anyhow. Is there really a significant downside to performing backups on a hot cyrus mailstore? Should I care if Suzie's INBOX was backed up at 3am and Sally's INBOX was backed up at 4am? Vincent, on a slightly related note, what is your server and SAN hardware? Thanks, Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
