Hang on though... don't you also have to stop sendmail, or cyrus-master
to avoid
mail delivery? That's what I do while backing up.
Quoting Matt Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I backup Cyrus with the following method:
1. Stop MySQL (used for login/alias etc)
2. Create a filesystem snapshot of the volume mail is stored on in LVM2 3.
Restart MySQL (down for all of 5 seconds)
4. Backup /var/spool/imap/* /var/lib/imap/* (and a few other things) from
the snapshot.
5. Release the snapshot.
That way I have a consistent state and the DB files are all in sync. If I
need to do a full restore I just put the files back. In the case I needed
to restore one email I put that back and do a reconstruct on the mail
folder. Works pretty well. /var/lib/imap isn't very big so it's not a
big deal to just back it all up. That way you've got sieve filters, seen
state, etc... in one place.
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