On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Patrick Goetz wrote:
Hi -
I'm sure I've asked about this before, but is there an approved/canonical way
to backup a cyrus mailstore?
It's not clear from the documentation what cyrdump does (if anything) and
short of stopping the server in order to backup the mailboxes and
/var/lib/cyrus with guaranteed synchrony.
Pending suggestions from this list, my current plan is to set up cyrus on
another host just for the purpose of using imapsync to copy mail from the
main mail server to the backup server, say, every night using a cron job.
I think you'll want to take this to the "info-cyrus" mailing list rather
than the cyrus development list.
I've never had problems performing a standard filesystem backup of Cyrus.
We're not the biggest Cyrus install in the world, but we are doing backups
and restores of approximately 4.5TB of mail across 3 backend servers.
Andy
