Hi, I'm rewriting my backup script and I cannot find any hint about how to backup the cyrus server in a good way. Actually I'm using this method: - Stop Postfix and Cyrus - making tar of /var/lib/sieve - making tar of /var/lib/imap - dumping mailboxes.db in plain text (ctl_mboxlist -d) - taking snapshots of all the mailstores - Restarting the Services - taking mailstore backups from the snapshots The last night the imaps was not restarted because the socket for IMAPS was busy and so I was wondering if today it's really needed to stop the service before taking the snapshots. Avoiding the service stop could also be useful in order to stop having a 1/2min downtime (I also take vmware snapshots of the machine) I was thinking to move in this direction: - Checkpoint and archive the databases (with ctl_cyrusdb -r) - making tar of /var/lib/imap - making tar of /var/lib/sieve - dumping mailboxes.db in plain text (ctl_mboxlist -d) - taking snapshots of all the mailstores - taking mailstore backups from the snapshots What kind of backup strategy are you using? Thanks Giuseppe ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
