Cyrus-Backup
Hello all, is there some good way how to elegantly backup cyrus mailboxes (sieve inclusive)? My idea is to copy/rsync relevant cyrus directories to another place. Does any good backup tool exist ? Or, how you backup your cyrus data ? Thank you. Vladimir Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Cyrus-Backup
I wrote one called mailbfr that is unix/Mac based (I'm told you can modify to work on most OS's with minor changes) http://downloads.topicdesk.com/mailbfr/mailbfr.tgz On Nov 10, 2005, at 05:24 , Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello all, is there some good way how to elegantly backup cyrus mailboxes (sieve inclusive)? My idea is to copy/rsync relevant cyrus directories to another place. Does any good backup tool exist ? Or, how you backup your cyrus data ? Thank you. Vladimir -- Dale Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: improving concurrency/performance (fwd)
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Does this mean that those of us using XFS should run some testing as well? Yes, XFS doesn't journal data in any way, AFAIK. I don't know how one could go about speeding up fsyncs() with it. What I *do* know is that I don't trust spools to XFS, because anything not fsync()'ed upon crash WILL be lost, but the metadata will likely be there and it is a total bitch to find out what has been damaged. You will have to hunt the entire fs over for files containing while blocks of NULs. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Cyrus-Backup
Hello ! Why not using rsnapshot. I have an array used for backup with rsnapshot. You can step back 1 hour with this elegant backup script which copies only changed files. The other ones are hard linked. Or you use an backup imap server to which all your mails are delivered. Rgds. Franz On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 06:16 -0500, websrvr wrote: I wrote one called mailbfr that is unix/Mac based (I'm told you can modify to work on most OS's with minor changes) http://downloads.topicdesk.com/mailbfr/mailbfr.tgz On Nov 10, 2005, at 05:24 , Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello all, is there some good way how to elegantly backup cyrus mailboxes (sieve inclusive)? My idea is to copy/rsync relevant cyrus directories to another place. Does any good backup tool exist ? Or, how you backup your cyrus data ? Thank you. Vladimir -- Dale Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- kind regards, +43-664-8468643 Franz Skale +43-1-7189880-0 Systems Engineerwww.cubit.at PGP KeyID 0xB294D39A Key Fingerprint B508 8896 B83C B374 770D 80EF 3AD9 4A66 B294 D39A signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
RE: Cyrus-Backup
Hi, I'll quote myself here, I wrote it some time ago on this list: 1) I'll make a dump of all mailboxes to the text file: su - cyrus -c ctl_mboxlist -d /var/lib/imap/mailboxlist.txt And I can restore it with: su - cyrus -c ctl_mboxlist -u /var/lib/imap/mailboxlist.txt 2) I will make a regular backups (in my case with DSM client) of /var/spool/imap/ and /var/lib/imap/, without stopping cyrus, in this case I endanger myself in some data inconsistency and maybe some e-mails lost (which were in process while backup was running). Please correct me on the above if there are some other dangers I'm not aware of??? 3) In case of disaster I can just copy mail directly from the backup to the mail store directory (/var/spool/imap/user/%username%), And run: /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -rf user/username 4) All quotas (in /var/lib/imap/quota/%firstletter of username%/)will not be reconstructed, so I'll need to do it manually. 5) All subscription and seen info (in /var/lib/imap/user/%firstletter of username%/) will not be reconstructed, but I could restore it from the regular backup. Regards, Leon Kolchinsky -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vladimir Dvorak Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:24 PM To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Cyrus-Backup Hello all, is there some good way how to elegantly backup cyrus mailboxes (sieve inclusive)? My idea is to copy/rsync relevant cyrus directories to another place. Does any good backup tool exist ? Or, how you backup your cyrus data ? Thank you. Vladimir Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
frequent DBERROR problems with the db directory
hi all, I have a imap server running cyrus 2.1.3 running on fedora core 1 I frequently get errors like this ( sometimes even thrice a day ) Nov 10 12:19:04 yy lmtpd[6258]: DBERROR: opening /var/imap/mailboxes.db: Cannot allocate memory Nov 10 12:19:04 yy lmtpd[6258]: DBERROR: opening /var/imap/mailboxes.db: cyrusdb error Nov 10 12:19:04 yy lmtpd[6258]: FATAL: can't read mailboxes file Nov 10 12:19:04 yy lmtpd[6258]: DBERROR db4: Database handles open during environment close I remove all files from /var/imap/db and restart cyrus and things start working fine Can I solve this permanently , without having to upgrade the cyrus server Thanks Ram Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Cyrus-Backup
Hi! I would like to download your tool, to try it out. But I got The requested URL /mailbfr/mailbfr.tgz was not found on this server. have you removed the file? Best regards, Martin websrvr schrieb: I wrote one called mailbfr that is unix/Mac based (I'm told you can modify to work on most OS's with minor changes) http://downloads.topicdesk.com/mailbfr/mailbfr.tgz On Nov 10, 2005, at 05:24 , Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello all, is there some good way how to elegantly backup cyrus mailboxes (sieve inclusive)? My idea is to copy/rsync relevant cyrus directories to another place. Does any good backup tool exist ? Or, how you backup your cyrus data ? Thank you. Vladimir -- Dale Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Cyrus-Backup
A typo http://downloads.topicdesk.com/mailbfr/mailbfr.tar.gz -- Dale On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:24 , Martin Müller wrote: Hi! I would like to download your tool, to try it out. But I got The requested URL /mailbfr/mailbfr.tgz was not found on this server. have you removed the file? Best regards, Martin websrvr schrieb: I wrote one called mailbfr that is unix/Mac based (I'm told you can modify to work on most OS's with minor changes) http://downloads.topicdesk.com/mailbfr/mailbfr.tgz On Nov 10, 2005, at 05:24 , Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello all, is there some good way how to elegantly backup cyrus mailboxes (sieve inclusive)? My idea is to copy/rsync relevant cyrus directories to another place. Does any good backup tool exist ? Or, how you backup your cyrus data ? Thank you. Vladimir -- Dale Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
FYI: Cyrus nntpd and slrn
Hey folks, Just posting this in case someone runs into the same problem that I did. Slrn 0.9.8.1 is unable to post to a Cyrus nntp server -- slrn likes to add a trailing space to commands, so it sends POST instead of POST, and Cyrus nntpd rejects the command. I've sent the (attached) patch to the slrn authors, but I'm including it here in case somebody else would like to get slrn working with Cyrus. Cheers, -- Lars slrn-lks-rfc.patch Description: Binary data Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
