Hello, Am 24.11.2010 10:28, schrieb Frank Elsner: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:13:51 +0100 Martin Pracht wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> with 2.3.X we were happy by having >> a standby-system for our mail server, >> keeping the data up to date by a >> periodical rsync from the working system. > > Just curious: What do you rsync? The mailboxes only? What else? > What about mailboxes.db? > Up to 2.3.X we do "rsync" what is configured in imapd.conf : configdirectory, sievedir and the partition(s). Normally working- and standby-system are kept identical (except we need the standby-system for testing). There was never a problem with mailboxes.db, in some cases we had positive experience with dumping and restoring mailboxes_db by using ctl_mboxlist. OK, there is as problem, we use berkeley_db as has been suggested. On the standby-system we use scripts to delete configdirectry/db, deliver.db and tls_session.db and create them new. Martin Pracht ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
