Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 06/09/2011 01:48 AM, Diego Ventrice wrote: >> I'm planning a backup strategy for a new server that will handle >> Hundreds of mailboxes. Largest server for me to admin so far >> >> Would you share your experiences backing up cyrus mailboxes ? >> What tool/s do you use ? how many backups a day do you run ? > > We backup all the files on the server using TSM, incrementals nightly. > > Server using delayed delete and delayed expunge. > > Also use cyrus replication to a second server. > > And we backup mailboxes.db to a text file once a day. This is exactly what we do. Deleted and expunged messages are kept for up to 2 days, but I'll likely extend this to avoid trips to `the wayback machine.'' A surprising number of people don't notice they deleted messages, or don't report it for a few days. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sofkam@xxxxxxx C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
