Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2010/6/16 Elver Loho : > Hi, > > I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system > (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) > and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. > What other options do I h

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:27:34PM +0300, Elver Loho wrote: > Hey Bron, > > I'm running Cyrus on Fedora 12, with the version number being > 2.3.16-3.fc12 according to yum. That's about as modern as it gets for now :) > By the way, how can I verify that replication is working and is up-to-date?

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Elver Loho
Hey Bron, I'm running Cyrus on Fedora 12, with the version number being 2.3.16-3.fc12 according to yum. By the way, how can I verify that replication is working and is up-to-date? When does sync_client fail and what does it leave behind that I should be worried about? Can you share your scripts i

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0300, Elver Loho wrote: > Replication looks to be the solution. Surprisingly I hadn't discovered > it on my own. Many thanks to everyone for pointing it out! > > However, while setting it up, I noticed a really weird thing. When > authentication fails on the mas

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Elver Loho
oho wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system >> (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) >> and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. >> What other options do I h

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 06/16/2010 05:45 AM, Roland Baum wrote: > For non-HA situations, you can do a 2-stage rsync-backup once a day: > > 1 ) copy all cyrus-folders (/var/spool/cyrus, /var/lib/cyrus etc) via rsync to > a backup-folder > 2 a) shutdown cyrus > 2 b) rsync the same folders to complete the snapshot > 2 c)

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
This is a feasible solution with a small downtime (a few seconds), without > using murder or lvm-based volumes or something else. It's nowhere near realtime though, which doesn't actually answer the original question: "I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup" T

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Roland Baum
t; > I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system > > (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) > > and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. > > What other options do I have? > > >

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Elver Loho : Hi, I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. What other options do I have? For MySQL I'

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Boutilier
On 06/16/2010 06:08 AM, Elver Loho wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system > (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) > and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. > What

Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Elver Loho
Hi, I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. What other options do I have? For MySQL I've set up master-slave replic