Rob Siemborski wrote:

But unless the contents of the folders are backed up in this way too, you
haven't really gained a significant amount, since the transactions that
cyrus needs to make rely on the contents of the filesystem as well.

True, although with the metadata secure you can politely tell the user their message is gone I agree that is of little benefit unless the messages are stored in the database as well. For a large installation, avoiding the downtime to reconstruct large databases after a crash might be a benefit worth the effort.

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