> So my understanding of the backup procedures of cyrus imapd are,
>
> (I am running on RHEL4 built in version of cyrus-imapd 2.2.12)
>
> 1) backup /var/spool/imap (or all the actual message stores, there are
> no BerkleyDB's in here so they can be backed up normally?)
>
> 2) backup /var/lib/imap/sieve, /var/lib/imap/quota and
> /var/lib/imap/user which are all non DB so they can too be backed up
> normally.
>
> 3) berkleyDB dump
> /var/lib/imap/{mailboxes.db|annotations.db|deliever.db} and get them
> backed up.Please note that not all of the db's have to be berkleyDB. For example mailboxes.db is skiplist per default. > > 4) what about /var/lib/imap/db directory? what is it doing exactly, i > can not find this directory in the docs? > > Now when I restore, it is a bit fuzzy on this, I can just restore the > stuff from #1 in the same place as it existed before and then run > reconstruct? > > What about restoring the rest? just db_load the DB files? > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > --- > Derek T. Yarnell > University of Maryland > Institute for Advanced Computer Studies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > 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 > > --- 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
