cyrreconstruct loosing emails

2006-01-04 Thread Markus Heller
Dear list(s) excuses for cross-posting, but what I have experienced today is really alarming. I have a kolab-based cyrus installation and I wanted to make the contents of a direcory accessible to a the according user. In order to archieve this I followed the instructions as given here: http://

backup without stopping the imap server?

2005-06-09 Thread Markus Heller
Dear list, I would like to ask once again as I have not received a positive answer yet. Does the cyrus imap server meanwhile offer the feature of a seemless / checkpointed backup that does not require to stop the service? Thanks in advance, Markus --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cy

Database backend?

2005-05-11 Thread Markus Heller
Dear List, has anybody tried to store the contents of the imap repository in a database like postgres? Is there an interface for postgres or mysql? Thanks in advance, Markus --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: htt

Replicate IMAP

2005-05-09 Thread Markus Heller
Dear list, is there a way to replicate an imap server on the fly, without shutting it down? Thanks! Markus --- 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

Kolab and preferred backup method

2005-05-06 Thread Markus Heller
Dear Cyrus experts, As you may know, the Cyrus imapd is used for the KOLAB open source groupware server. Unfortunately I have lost some emails during a test recently, so I was hit hard by the question how to back up the imapd. What is the preferred and recommended backup strategy that allows ze