2009/1/15 Rudy Gevaert
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
> > For those of you running large installations, how do you back them up?
>
> We have 7 backends:
> 400G 320G 81G 80% /mail/mail1
> 400G 273G 128G 69% /mail/mail2
> 450G 390G
On Thu, January 15, 2009 8:57 am, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
>
>> For those of you running large installations, how do you back them up?
>>
>
> We have 7 backends:
> 400G 320G 81G 80% /mail/mail1
> 400G 273G 128G 69% /mail/mail2
> 450G 390G 61G 87% /mail/mail3
> 400G 3
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Btw has anybody migrated a normal setup to a murder setup?
>
> Can it easily be done? E.g. stop, edit configs, start. More or less :)
Yeah, it's easy. We did it here.
Have your frontend(s) and mupdate master machine ready to go. Then just
switch th
On 18 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I can't find any info about the unified on the wiki/site. I once did
> read about it. In the docs I can't find a definition of the unified
> setup.
From imapd.conf man page:
mupdate_config: standard
The configuration of the m
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:20:07PM -0500, Wesley Craig wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2009, at 03:22, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> > I meant that I'm 'scared' to use murder.
>
> "Standard" murder is pretty solid. "Unified" is not yet solid, but I
> think it's fair to say that that's the logical direction for Cyru
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 09:10:54AM -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> Scared of what happening? We've been using murder here for the past 4
> years.
First, I haven't even tried to set up a murder. However from time to
time I see posts on the list (from you e.g. :)) about things going not
as they sho
On 17 Jan 2009, at 03:22, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I meant that I'm 'scared' to use murder.
"Standard" murder is pretty solid. "Unified" is not yet solid, but I
think it's fair to say that that's the logical direction for Cyrus to
go -- it solves many inconsistencies, and it's a step along the p
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:55:30PM -0500, Wesley Craig wrote:
>> On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>>> No we don't have murder running (yet)
>>>
>>> I am not confident enough in the setup. I have seen to many bad
>>> messages on the list.
>>>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:55:30PM -0500, Wesley Craig wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>> No we don't have murder running (yet)
>>
>> I am not confident enough in the setup. I have seen to many bad
>> messages on the list.
>>
>> But I haven't set it up yet, so I may be 'scar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:23:09PM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:55:30PM -0500, Wesley Craig wrote:
> > On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> > > No we don't have murder running (yet)
> > >
> > > I am not confident enough in the setup. I have seen to many bad
>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:55:30PM -0500, Wesley Craig wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> > No we don't have murder running (yet)
> >
> > I am not confident enough in the setup. I have seen to many bad
> > messages on the list.
> >
> > But I haven't set it up yet, so I may be
On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> No we don't have murder running (yet)
>
> I am not confident enough in the setup. I have seen to many bad
> messages on the list.
>
> But I haven't set it up yet, so I may be 'scared' for nothing.
There are always bugs, of course, but in recent vers
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:08:24PM -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> > Fulls take a lot longer, but I can't give you any time estimates now.
>
> Our incrementals take about 2 hours (both backends are done at the same
> time). Our fulls take an entire day, but we only do fulls once a month.
> I'm ho
> I would like to add a *lot* more storage so that we can increase our email
> quotas (currently 200MB per user). It seems like the proper way to scale
> up is to split the Cyrus metadata off and use some large SATA drives for
> the message files. I was considering adding a shelf of 1TB SATA dri
On Friday 16 January 2009 06:34:29 Andrew Morgan wrote:
> This kinda goes back to a discussion last week about filesystems. I think
> I would like ZFS, but I'm not sure I want to switch our Cyrus stuff over
> to Solaris. We run a fair amount of Solaris on SPARC here, but no Solaris
> x86. Unfort
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:42:04PM -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> But then I started thinking about how I was going to backup all this new
> data... Our backup administrator isn't too excited about trying to backup
> 12TB of email data.
>
> What if we used Cyrus replication in combination with d
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Simon Matter wrote:
>
>>> But then I started thinking about how I was going to backup all this
>>> new
>>> data... Our backup administrator isn't too excited about trying to
>>> backup
>>> 12TB of email data.
>>>
>>> What if we used Cyrus replication in combination with dela
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
>> For those of you running large installations, how do you back them up?
>
> We have 7 backends:
> 400G 320G 81G 80% /mail/mail1
> 400G 273G 128G 69% /mail/mail2
>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Simon Matter wrote:
>> But then I started thinking about how I was going to backup all this new
>> data... Our backup administrator isn't too excited about trying to backup
>> 12TB of email data.
>>
>> What if we used Cyrus replication in combination with delayed expunge as a
Andrew Morgan wrote:
> For those of you running large installations, how do you back them up?
We have 7 backends:
400G 320G 81G 80% /mail/mail1
400G 273G 128G 69% /mail/mail2
450G 390G 61G 87% /mail/mail3
Andrew Morgan wrote:
> But then I started thinking about how I was going to backup all this new
> data... Our backup administrator isn't too excited about trying to backup
> 12TB of email data.
Just a side note:
For most backup systems it is not the size which matters much (because
only a sma
> But then I started thinking about how I was going to backup all this new
> data... Our backup administrator isn't too excited about trying to backup
> 12TB of email data.
>
> What if we used Cyrus replication in combination with delayed expunge as a
> form of "backup"? We currently only keep 1
I have an existing Cyrus installation consisting of:
(2) backend servers, each with 800GB of SAN storage, 1 cyrus partition
(3) frontend servers
(1) mupdate master
Obviously, we are running Cyrus as a murder cluster and we really like
that.
I'm interested in upgrading both the servers and the s
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