> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael > Salmon > Sent: 26 September 2001 08:17 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: What is the best way to backup the email boxes in cyrus > imap. > > > On Friday, September 21, 2001 07:40:50 PM +0100 James Courtier-Dutton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +------ > | Hello > | What is the best way to backup email boxes in cyrus imap?
> 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 So if I only backup the message files and the acl's. When I restore everything on a new machine, will the cyrus.* files create themselves ? The backup I want is just so that in a disaster situation, I can reload all the email from backup onto a new machine. Cheers James
