Re: Backup vs replication

2018-05-20 Thread ellie timoney
Hi Albert, The main logical difference between ordinary replication and the experimental backup system in Cyrus 3.0 is that in a replicated system, the replica is a copy of the account's current state (as of the last replication). The backup system is a historical record, not just a current st

Backup vs replication

2018-05-18 Thread Albert Shih
Hi everyone, I'm not sure I really understand what's the benefice of backup (cyrus>3.x) vs replication ? Is the main goal are to save disk space with compression ? Less inode (with large file) ? I believe the add backup feature to cyrus-imapd was/still very lots of work. So what's the advantage