Re: Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Murchison
Doug Koobs wrote: Ken, Thanks for the info. If the contents of the mailstore is static when you do the backup/restore, then reconstruct *shouldn't* be necessary. OK, how about this. I'll try it first without running reconstruct. If there are problems, then I'll shut down cyrus-imapd and run re

RE: Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Koobs
Ken, Thanks for the info. > If the contents of the mailstore is static when you do the > backup/restore, then reconstruct *shouldn't* be necessary. OK, how about this. I'll try it first without running reconstruct. If there are problems, then I'll shut down cyrus-imapd and run reconstruct on j

Re: Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Murchison
Doug Koobs wrote: I'm testing our backup and recovery process. For backups, we shut down cyrus-imapd (installed via Simon's rpm's) and postfix, use cpio to backup /var/spool/mail and /var/lib/imap and /etc, then restart cyrus-imapd and postfix. I've built a restore server, installed postfix and cyr

Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Koobs
I'm testing our backup and recovery process. For backups, we shut down cyrus-imapd (installed via Simon's rpm's) and postfix, use cpio to backup /var/spool/mail and /var/lib/imap and /etc, then restart cyrus-imapd and postfix. I've built a restore server, installed postfix and cyrus. Here is what