Just a thought, but are you sure you want to back up your mailstore. Many places,
including my current and previous places of employment, don't back up mailstore as
a matter of policy. Here's a scenario that explains why: someone is your
organization is doing something they shouldn't be and part of the evidence is the
contents of one or more email messages. Now, of course that individual deleted
ther messages because most folks aren't that stupid (okay, there are some who are),
but the point is that it's on your backups, and those tapes, which might also have
other confidential, etc, data on them, can be subpoenaed. What doesn't exist
cannot be subpoenaed, and you won't find yourself embroiled in litigation of which
your just the poor innocent bystander caught in the middle with your back up tapes.
Our general position is that the imap server is not long term storage, it's a mail
server. Of course, none of this applies if you're using the server from some
specialized application rather than general-purpose mail, such as part of a
helpdesk for example.
Just my two cents worth.
-- Rob
--On Monday, December 18, 2000 11:58:38 AM -0500 "Erin B. Peszko"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone care to offer their recommendations of a backup server
> (software for Solaris) for the Cyrus IMAP server data?
>
> We currently backup a mailstore of about 7 million messages, (average
> message size about 20K), divided among 30 partitions, and, we're getting
> unacceptable results in terms of time and reliability for both the backup
> and restore of the data.
>
> IMAP Server:
> Sun 450
> Solaris 2.5.1 (soon to be 2.7)
> Attached to Sun A7000 for all partition data
>
> Please, no recommend of Tivoli's TSM (ADSM) 3.7 for Solaris. ;)
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Erin
>
>
> U. of Pittsburgh
>
>
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