Daniel Qian wrote:
It confused me by putting all databases using BDB under a imap directory.
Read the documentation at sleepycat -- the logs are per BDB
environment. In this case, it protects only the various BDB files used
by Cyrus.
Anyway I am more concerned about a proper way to backup all my mailbox
messages. It seems to me that I can backup the content under these
directories:
/var/imap ; where my mailboxes.db resides
/var/spool/imap/user ; suppose I only care about the messages already in user
mailboxes
So even on a newly installed empty system resulted from a system crash I
would still be able to recover everything in mailboxes simply by copying back
these backup files to where they are before the crash and run a reconstruct.
Correct me if I am missing anything.
Correct, although you might care about the BDB logs if the mailboxes.db
was corrupted due to the crash. Personally I like dumping the mailbox
list to a text file just before the backup as a belt-and-suspenders
safety net.
--
John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator
Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
