Re: Backup using lvm snapshot on linux

2006-02-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 10:36 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:47, Timo Veith wrote: Which way would you recommend for copying: rsync, tar, cp or whatever? I am concerned about the databases that cyrus uses. Will they they be consistent afterwards. Is there anything

Re: Backup using lvm snapshot on linux

2006-01-31 Thread Timo Veith
Am Dienstag 31 Januar 2006 01:06 schrieben Sie: The critical thing would be that you did a snapshot though.. (and your snapshot implementation works :) Is that an allusion to the experimental status of dm-snapshots in the linux kernel or just a general statement? :) Timo Cyrus Home Page:

Re: Backup using lvm snapshot on linux

2006-01-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 19:06, Timo Veith wrote: Am Dienstag 31 Januar 2006 01:06 schrieben Sie: The critical thing would be that you did a snapshot though.. (and your snapshot implementation works :) Is that an allusion to the experimental status of dm-snapshots in the linux kernel or

Re: Backup using lvm snapshot on linux

2006-01-31 Thread John Madden
Is that an allusion to the experimental status of dm-snapshots in the linux kernel or just a general statement? :) It was a slight linux dig (me being a FreeBSD person), but in general if you really care about your emails then working snapshots are a good thing :) As a user of lvm snapshots

Backup using lvm snapshot on linux

2006-01-30 Thread Timo Veith
Hi list readers, I am trying to do a backup of our mail server using lvm snapshots. I read how to do snapshots and learned that I need some free space on the volume group where the snapshot is to be made. Unfortunately I gave all disk space to the cyrus mail spool in that volume group *and* I

Re: Backup using lvm snapshot on linux

2006-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:47, Timo Veith wrote: Which way would you recommend for copying: rsync, tar, cp or whatever? I am concerned about the databases that cyrus uses. Will they they be consistent afterwards. Is there anything I have to be aware of or do before? I don't want to break