I have found a link to a process that might be helpful: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
Aside from this, we have done it the old fashion way: tar & zip on a live system late at night. We just had a major server failure on 10/25/2006 which we were able to recover from. Since this worked we most likely will go with this (Knock on wood), but the above is a bit more streamlined (rsync). -Bob ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rafael Mahecha Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:50 PM To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: how to backup a cyrus server? I recently moved all my users from proprietary wemail (using local sendmail) to latest cyrus and sendmail using lmtp. I used to use tivoli to backup the old server (which was ok since no data bases were involved)... but since cyrus has databases and such, I am concern about file-locking and database corruption. What is the best way to back up the server? shutdown cyrus for a while, then snap shot it, and then back up to tivoli.... or should I just be able to back up the running server directly to tivoli? what other software can I use to backup? Thanks ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Rafael Mahecha Email / Systems Administrator JSU OIM - Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jsums.edu :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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