On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 10:04 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, 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 ? > Enabling delayed delete and delayed expunge will help a lot: > delete_mode: delayed > expunge_mode: delayed > You'll also want to modify your expire line in cyrus.conf to something > like this: > delprune cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -E 1 -X 7 -D 7" at=0100 > -D and -X control how long deleted and expunged items remain on-disk: > > -D delete-days > Remove previously deleted mailboxes older than delete-days (when > using the "delayed" delete mode). "Older than" is a confusing statement. According to my notes this means a message is kept for a minimum of X days from delivery, not X number of days *after* it is deleted. I don't know why my notes say this, but I remember testing it and convincing myself it is true. So -X / -D may not do exactly what you are assuming they do. Am I wrong? (and are you certain I'm wrong?) ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
