[CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff and impasync . But its is not sufficin

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > Hi > > We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB space )  . > We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > Hi > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . > We have trie

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > > Hi > > > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > > backup on to /backup parti

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč wrote: >> >> Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): >> > Hi >> > >> > We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >> > the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take >>

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > > backup on to /backup partition

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
2010/2/24 Eero Volotinen > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč > wrote: > >> > >> Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > >> > Hi > >> > > >> > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server > with > >> > the /var/spo

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: > > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server > with > > > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . Th

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: >> > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): >> > > We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server >> > > with >> > > t

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: > >> > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > >> > > We have an is

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen > wrote: >> >> 2010/2/24 Agnello George : >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: >> >> > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, A

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
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Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/24/2010 11:21 AM, Agnello George wrote: > > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 4805500 Feb 24 16:23 4799. > > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 22920 Feb 24 16:23 cyrus.cache > > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 204 Dec 10 16:27 cyrus.header > > -rw--- 1 cyrus

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > > wrote: > > >> You might want to try brackup (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/). For > > >>

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen >wrote: > > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > > > > wrote: > > > >> You might

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take > differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total > 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 01:07 PM, Agnello George wrote: > yes just spoke to my senior and confrimed that this was alreday tried > out a delayed replication is possible . > but the current suitation is we need to take backup on the same > server on a different partition /backup :( you can replicate to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . You've stated things in terms of solut

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Mike McCarty : > Agnello George wrote: >> Hi >> >> We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >> the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential >> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB space )  . > > You'

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/24/2010 1:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> >>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential >>> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . >> >> You've s

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty : >> Agnello George wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential >>> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Eero Volotinen wrote: > > 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty : > >> Agnello George wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server > with > >>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take >

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen >wrote: > > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > > > > wrote: > > > >> You might

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Gavin Carr
Have you read Brackup::Manual::Overview? Your questions are all answered in the man pages there or linked from there. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:21:47PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > > Brackup will backup to local disk, or remotely to ftp, sf

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. > > Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user access load. Which in t

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. >> Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. > > Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be > point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > [1] Changeset and data/system model over time relation mapping for an > adaptive system sizing feedback loop! ( how'se that for buzzword > injection! ) --- Well if you run vacum on a Postgres DB then all that goes to the crapper...

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread John Doe
From: Agnello George > is it possible with " brackup " to back it up to a different server on the > same lan instead of /backup . Is there any documentation on the same . It apparently support: Brackup::Target::Amazon backup to Amazon's S3 service Brackup::Target::CloudFiles backup

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: > The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but human > error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge mailbox > size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he want to recover > them , the contacts us as we are supposed to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. >> Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. > > Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be > point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Smith
Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. You're certainly welcome to try it! http://www.effortlessis.com/thisisnotba

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and > reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, > offsite, > automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. > Yo