Re: Cyrus Backup Strategy

2003-06-13 Thread John Alton Tamplin
pnelson wrote: Yes dumping to removable medium. Why not write directly to tape rather than going through an extra step and requiring extra disk space? So a cyrus backup needs to contain: /var/spool/imap /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db to be useful as a backup, right? With these to things I can

Re: Cyrus Backup Strategy

2003-06-13 Thread Igor Brezac
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, pnelson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:11, Igor Brezac wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, pnelson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:29, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > > > > pnelson wrote: > > > > > > > > >My last thing to do prior to converting to production is a backup

Re: Cyrus Backup Strategy

2003-06-13 Thread pnelson
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:11, Igor Brezac wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, pnelson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:29, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > > > pnelson wrote: > > > > > > >My last thing to do prior to converting to production is a backup > > > >strategy. I have been doing this with tar s

Re: Cyrus Backup Strategy

2003-06-13 Thread Igor Brezac
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, pnelson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:29, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > > pnelson wrote: > > > > >My last thing to do prior to converting to production is a backup > > >strategy. I have been doing this with tar something like: > > > > > >tar -C /var/lib-czf lib-.tar.g

Re: Cyrus Backup Strategy

2003-06-13 Thread pnelson
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:29, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > pnelson wrote: > > >My last thing to do prior to converting to production is a backup > >strategy. I have been doing this with tar something like: > > > >tar -C /var/lib-czf lib-.tar.gzimap > >tar -C /var/spool -czf spool-.tar.gz

Re: Cyrus Backup Strategy

2003-06-13 Thread John Alton Tamplin
pnelson wrote: My last thing to do prior to converting to production is a backup strategy. I have been doing this with tar something like: tar -C /var/lib-czf lib-.tar.gzimap tar -C /var/spool -czf spool-.tar.gz imap tar -cf cyrus-.tar This is producing a pretty big file(s): lib-.tar.g