On Friday, September 21, 2001 07:40:50 PM +0100 James Courtier-Dutton
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| Hello
| What is the best way to backup email boxes in cyrus imap?
| I have a number IMAP clients connected, and some of them share mail boxes.
| Surely, everyone should be disconnected while the backup takes place.
| Is it possible to do the following: -
| Disconnect one user, or alternatively, lock write access to the mailbox.
| Backup mail box
| Enable write access from the user again.
| Then do the same for each user.
|
| Unless this locking takes place, I think there is a possibility of
| corruption in the backup file.
|
| The only other way, is to stop the email server entirely during the
| backup, but I would prefer less drastic measures.
| Currently, all my users use IMAP, and email is delivered from sendmail via
| deliver.
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I think that you are confusing cyrus with UW. The message files aren't ever
changed and hence cannot be corrupted, the cyrus.* files change but as
there aren't any tools to merge 2 copies they aren't worth backing up. That
just leaves the mailbox file which only changes when you change acl's. Once
again this would be a difficult file to recover but it is too important to
ignore.
/Michael
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