Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.4.2012, at 18.28, Charles Marcus wrote: > The snapshots are stored with the following filesystem layout: > > /path/to/snapshotsdir/hourly.0 > ... > /path/to/snapshotsdir/hourly.4 > /path/to/snapshotsdir/daily.0 .. > The 'names' (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) are arbitrary (this is

Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.4.2012, at 20.02, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-04-05 12:37 PM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: >> The first interesting point I'd see with this, is that you supply the >> mail client with a near endless supply of folders, which would take a >> lot of caching space on the clients end, either (dependin

Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.4.2012, at 1.46, Joseph Tam wrote: > One other consideration (at least for me) is if the INBOX and > personal mail folders are stored in two separate FS's. It would be nice > to fuse the two sets of backups under the same namespace, but I don't > know how the namespace prefix matching works

Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-05 Thread Joseph Tam
A timely topic as I was just mulling over ways to provide this to my users. Charles Marcus wrote: The snapshots are stored with the following filesystem layout: /path/to/snapshotsdir/hourly.0 ... This is familiar to NetApp users. The 'names' (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) are ar

Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-04-05 12:37 PM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: The first interesting point I'd see with this, is that you supply the mail client with a near endless supply of folders, which would take a lot of caching space on the clients end, either (depending on the client and its configuration) from the moment

Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-05 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 05-04-12 17:28, Charles Marcus wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning on implementing this in my new upcoming dovecot instance, > and would like to hear thoughts on how best to accomplish this. We will > be paying Timo's support company to do the work, but obviously, the less > work in the form of c

[Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

2012-04-05 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi all, I'm planning on implementing this in my new upcoming dovecot instance, and would like to hear thoughts on how best to accomplish this. We will be paying Timo's support company to do the work, but obviously, the less work in the form of coding he has to do to get this working (I'm hopin