On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:25 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Is there a FAQ on disaster recovery and such for Cyrus IMAP. If not, > there ought to be one ;-) > > Some of the more esoteric items such as the ctl_* commands - and what to > do when your server (db) goes south, etc. ---- make copies of the db or just move it into a folder.
backups are automatically created by system - at least on my setup, there are a few of them... # ls -l /var/lib/imap/*db /var/lib/imap/db.backup* -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Feb 16 23:23 /var/lib/imap/annotations.db -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1744896 Feb 22 21:53 /var/lib/imap/deliver.db -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 22032 Feb 21 21:09 /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db -rwxr-xr-x 1 cyrus mail 1330 Feb 5 22:34 /var/lib/imap/recover-mailboxes.db -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 8192 Feb 22 04:00 /var/lib/imap/tls_sessions.db /var/lib/imap/db: total 21216 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 16384 Feb 16 23:23 __db.001 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 663552 Feb 16 23:23 __db.002 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 98304 Feb 16 23:23 __db.003 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 23068672 Feb 16 23:23 __db.004 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 32768 Feb 16 23:23 __db.005 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4686575 Feb 22 22:09 log.0000000004 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4 Feb 16 23:23 skipstamp /var/lib/imap/db.backup1: total 4608 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Feb 22 21:53 annotations.db -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4675753 Feb 22 21:53 log.0000000004 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 22032 Feb 22 21:53 mailboxes.db /var/lib/imap/db.backup2: total 4584 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Feb 22 21:23 annotations.db -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4649358 Feb 22 21:23 log.0000000004 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 22032 Feb 22 21:23 mailboxes.db of course on this setup, it isn't cyrus but db4 (sleepy cat) that is the db. You might want to read up on db_recover/db_verify (there are man pages) Craig --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
