Re: backup rsync

2014-08-29 Thread Patrick Goetz
There's something to be worried about with using lvm snapshots. My understanding is that this can dramatically slow down your system. I'm too busy right now to pull up a reference, but google is your friend. On 08/29/2014 09:27 AM, Marcus Schopen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planing to use lvm snaps

Re: backup rsync

2014-08-29 Thread David R Bosso
--On August 29, 2014 at 4:27:57 PM +0200 Marcus Schopen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planing to use lvm snaps and rsync for a daily disaster recovery > backup on my master cyrus (2.4.12 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS): Have you tested lvm snaps for this purpose yet? When I tried to use lvm snapshots in this way a

backup rsync

2014-08-29 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, I'm planing to use lvm snaps and rsync for a daily disaster recovery backup on my master cyrus (2.4.12 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS): ctl_cyrusdb -c ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxes.db.dump stop cyrus lvm snaps start cyrus rsync /var/lib/cyrus/ and /var/spool/cyrus to backup host remove snaps Is there