Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-18 Thread lkolchin
Hello All,   Could you please point me to some good tutorial/manual on how to backup and restore Cyrus DB and mailboxes.   Best Regards, Leon Kolchinsky Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread lkolchin
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 12:44 PMTo: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.eduSubject: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus Hello All,   Could you please point me to some good tutorial/manual on how to backup and restore Cyrus DB and mailboxes.   Best

Re: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread Huaqing Zheng
On 9/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello again. > > Is it really no one on the list can suggest me some backup/restore howto for > Cyrus mailboxes? > I believe that there are some guys on the list who can help. > > So please be so nice to answer me. I think an

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread Didi Rieder
--On Monday, September 19, 2005 02:00:14 PM +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it really no one on the list can suggest me some backup/restore howto for Cyrus mailboxes? I believe that there are some guys on the list who can help. So please be so nice to answer me. As a start you could look a

Re: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread Vittorio Muth
Hi Leon, There is (one of many) way(s) how you can perfom a backup: This script is only for the mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/imap in my case) and the files in /var/imap (for example: mailboxes.db) #/bin/bash #first do an unstable copy (just to reduce the downtime of cyrus later) tmp

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread lst_hoe01
Zitat von [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello again. Is it really no one on the list can suggest me some backup/restore howto for Cyrus mailboxes? I believe that there are some guys on the list who can help. So please be so nice to answer me. As a starting point have a look at http://acs-wiki.andrew.

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread lkolchin
er 19, 2005 3:54 PM To: לאון קולצ'ינסקי Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus Hi Leon, There is (one of many) way(s) how you can perfom a backup: This script is only for the mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/imap in my case) and the files in /va

Re: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
Hi Leon, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: A) So if anyone have some scripts with the snapshot feature who can share them, it would be nice to see them here. B) Also any scripts with the minimal downtime for the cyrus are welcomed. C) Any snapshot techniques (on reiserfs) are also very interesting an

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-19 Thread Wil Cooley
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cyrus and > I think it's very problematic in production environment. I think the point is that, short of using some of the replication stuff from pre-2.3 in CVS, there's no

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-20 Thread Simon Matter
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cyrus and >> I think it's very problematic in production environment. > > I think the point is that, short of using some of the replication stuff > from pre-2.3 in CVS, th

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-20 Thread lkolchin
IL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wil Cooley Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:03 AM To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cy

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-20 Thread John Madden
> I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without any > downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM based > snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really > consistent from the aplications point of view. And that's the big quest

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-20 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Madden wrote: I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without any downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM based snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really consistent from the aplications poin

RE: Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

2005-09-21 Thread Simon Matter
>> I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without >> any >> downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM >> based >> snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really >> consistent from the aplications point of view. > > And that's