Re: Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Erin B. Peszko wrote: > Does anyone care to offer their recommendations of a backup server > (software for Solaris) for the Cyrus IMAP server data? > > We currently backup a mailstore of about 7 million messages, (average > message size about 20K), divided among 30 partiti

Re: Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-18 Thread Walter Wong
We currently just dump the filesystem using Amanda. We have a 21 day rotation. In the future, what we would like to do is basically map the concept of AFS volume to IMAP folders. Specifically, this means that we'd like to have a) OldFiles - a read-only view of your mailbox from some time

Re: Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-18 Thread Tom Karches
Rob Tanner wrote: > > Just a thought, but are you sure you want to back up your mailstore. Many places, > including my current and previous places of employment, don't back up mailstore as > a matter of policy. Here's a scenario that explains why: someone is your > organization is doing some

Re: Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-18 Thread Ben Carter
--On Monday, December 18, 2000 10:03 AM -0800 Rob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:r > Just a thought, but are you sure you want to back up your mailstore. > Many places, including my current and previous places of employment, > don't back up mailstore as a matter of policy. Here's a scenario

Re: Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-18 Thread Rob Tanner
Just a thought, but are you sure you want to back up your mailstore. Many places, including my current and previous places of employment, don't back up mailstore as a matter of policy. Here's a scenario that explains why: someone is your organization is doing something they shouldn't be and

Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-18 Thread Erin B. Peszko
Does anyone care to offer their recommendations of a backup server (software for Solaris) for the Cyrus IMAP server data? We currently backup a mailstore of about 7 million messages, (average message size about 20K), divided among 30 partitions, and, we're getting unacceptable results in terms