> On 10/9/2010 7:23 AM, Michael D. Sofka wrote: >> >> I can either rsync just the mail messages to the warm backup, and then >> reconstruct the index files. Or, I can take a slight detour, and upgrade >> the warm backup server to 2.3.16. >> > > This is something I've been wondering, too. The problem with not > copying the indexes is that presumably you lose all the metadata. And > if you rsync /var/spool/cyrus/mail it would seem to me that you run the > risk of the index being out of sync with the mail spool; i.e. the only > way to safely use rsync is > > stop cyrus > rsync > restart cyrus > > Which isn't practical for some environments. > > imapsync seems to work fairly well and doesn't suffer from any race > conditions like this, however requires that you have each user's imap > password. The solution that I'm considering is creating a dummy user
Fortunately there is no need to do so :) All you need is defining a user in the "proxyservers" option in imapd.conf and use this one to authenticate with imapsync. It works very well. Simon ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
