On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Erin B. Peszko 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
Make sure you mount your filesystems with noatime.
I use Arkeia. For extra performance, in the past I have setup each
partition as separate flow in Arkeia, that way I can backup as many
partitions in parallel as I have available flows in Arkeia (license
limitation).
Tom
