On Thursday, September 27, 2001 03:51:59 PM +0100 James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +------ | > On Friday, September 21, 2001 07:40:50 PM +0100 James Courtier-Dutton | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > +------ | > | Hello | > | What is the best way to backup email boxes in cyrus imap? | | > I think that you are confusing cyrus with UW. The message files | > aren't ever | > changed and hence cannot be corrupted, the cyrus.* files change but as | > there aren't any tools to merge 2 copies they aren't worth | > backing up. That | > just leaves the mailbox file which only changes when you change | > acl's. Once | > again this would be a difficult file to recover but it is too | > important to | > ignore. | > | > /Michael | So if I only backup the message files and the acl's. | When I restore everything on a new machine, will the cyrus.* files create | themselves ? | The backup I want is just so that in a disaster situation, I can reload | all the email from backup onto a new machine. +-----X8
The cyrus.* files aren't created automatically, you need to run reconstruct, it will fix cyrus.index and cyrus.cache. IIRC cyrus.seen is created automatically which leaves cyrus.header. It contains a copy of the acl for the folder and is used to recreate the mailbox file, that file would probably be worthwhile backing up for disaster recovery. I should probably add that I use version 1.5 but I haven't seen anything on this list that indicates that later versions work significantly differently. /Michael -- This space intentionally left non-blank.
