Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, at 00:02, Nic Bernstein wrote: > Bron, > Thanks for the response. Your solution has pointed us towards the > proper approach. We are using ZFS, so would be performing ZFS > send/receive replication rather than "mv", to move the filesystems. > Our typical approach for this

Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-09 Thread Nic Bernstein
Bron, Thanks for the response.  Your solution has pointed us towards the proper approach.  We are using ZFS, so would be performing ZFS send/receive replication rather than "mv", to move the filesystems. Our typical approach for this sort of thing, then, would be: * Create a filesystem snaps

Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
Hi Nic, Sorry I didn't get back to answering you on this the other day! So... this one is kinda tricky, because everything is going to be on "spool", but here's how I would do it. Before: /mnt/smalldisk/conf -> meta files only /mnt/bigdisk/spool -> all email right now Stage 1: splitting: /mnt/

Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-04 Thread Nic Bernstein
Thanks much to you  both for your comments and suggestions.  We had already considered creating a temporary "staging" partition and shuffling mailboxes around, as Michael discussed, but have the same reservations about it.  Since we're dealing with nearly 6TB of data, most of it old, this schem

Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-03 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Reinaldo Gil Lima de Carvalho : I think that singleinstancestore (message hard links) will not survive when moving from one partition to the other and storage total size will increase significantly. thanks for the hint. This was not a problem while migration to the meta-data pa

Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-03 Thread Reinaldo Gil Lima de Carvalho
I think that singleinstancestore (message hard links) will not survive when moving from one partition to the other and storage total size will increase significantly. Reinaldo Gil Lima de Carvalho 2017-11-03 12:22 GMT-03:00 Michael Menge : > Hi Nic, > > Quoting Nic Bernstein : > > Friends, >> I

Re: Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-11-03 Thread Michael Menge
Hi Nic, Quoting Nic Bernstein : Friends, I have a client with Cyrus 2.5.10 installed.  Last year we migrated their old 2.3.18 system to 2.5.10, with an eye towards an eventual move to 3.0.x.  Based on Bron's most excellent email of last year, ([Subject: Cyrus database and file usage data]

Adding archiving to an existing Cyrus installation

2017-10-30 Thread Nic Bernstein
Friends, I have a client with Cyrus 2.5.10 installed.  Last year we migrated their old 2.3.18 system to 2.5.10, with an eye towards an eventual move to 3.0.x.  Based on Bron's most excellent email of last year, ([Subject: Cyrus database and file usage data] from Cyrus Devel of 8 January 2016)