Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-20 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox wrote: > On 4/20/2011 12:50 AM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: >> >> Hi Vincent, >> >> How do you make the snapshot consistent (netbackup+vmware snapshot)? >> >> Do you stop cyrus? > I'll have to ask our backup admin if you want technical specifics > and guarantees, but my understanding was that

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-20 Thread Vincent Fox
On 4/20/2011 12:50 AM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > Hi Vincent, > > How do you make the snapshot consistent (netbackup+vmware snapshot)? > > Do you stop cyrus? I'll have to ask our backup admin if you want technical specifics and guarantees, but my understanding was that the process included an atomic s

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-20 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On 04/18/2011 05:19 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: > I've recently started working with netbackup7 ability to backup > the VMware image This allows the backup of a large SAN LUN > to take place on the head node. Currently using it on our Sympa > list-server node which has same problem as Cyrus, many sm

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:03:09AM +0200, Paolo Cravero wrote: > On 18/04/2011 19.41, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > You probably want to add yourself to the CC list on: > > > > http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3384 > > > > Where we're discussing precisely how to implement something like

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-19 Thread Paolo Cravero
On 18/04/2011 17.19, Vincent Fox wrote: > What web-based client? Why would you expect it to die? It is Open Xchange. Some users do not organize messages in folders, just leave everything in the INBOX. So, depending on the (web)client implementation, such a huge number of items can be a perform

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-19 Thread Paolo Cravero
On 18/04/2011 19.41, Bron Gondwana wrote: > You probably want to add yourself to the CC list on: > > http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3384 > > Where we're discussing precisely how to implement something like this. Well, Bron, you ended the discussion pretty fast with an elegant solu

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:23AM -0500, Jeff wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Paolo Cravero wrote: > > Good morning. > > I am looking for a server-side archiving solution to be applied to a > > relatively large cyrus installation. > > > > The customer eats up ca 4 TB of data over about

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-18 Thread Jeff
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Paolo Cravero wrote: > Good morning. > I am looking for a server-side archiving solution to be applied to a > relatively large cyrus installation. > > The customer eats up ca 4 TB of data over about 4000 accounts. No quota. > > The competition is: who will die firs

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-18 Thread Vincent Fox
On 4/18/2011 2:58 AM, Paolo Cravero wrote: > The competition is: who will die first? The web-based client or our > SAN+backup system? :-) What web-based client? Why would you expect it to die? As to SAN, this maybe related. We have found netbackup on large Cyrus mail-store volumes are a prob

Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-18 Thread Paolo Cravero
Good morning. I am looking for a server-side archiving solution to be applied to a relatively large cyrus installation. The customer eats up ca 4 TB of data over about 4000 accounts. No quota. The competition is: who will die first? The web-based client or our SAN+backup system? :-) I am aware