Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-26 Thread Wesley Craig
On 23 Jun 2006, at 20:58, Seiichirou Hiraoka wrote: How about to use rsync and reconstruct (on backup) without using snapshot? Depending on how tolerant you are of inconsistency between the contents of /var/spool/imap and /var/imap, that will work. :wes Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.

Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-23 Thread Seiichirou Hiraoka
Thanks everybody, to Daniel Eckl> Thank you for consideration. I know the FQS to use Cyrus-IMAPD on NFS. But... historical details, I need to use and it looks work without problem...^_^; Then... From: Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How to backup cyrus-imap

Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 24 June 2006 00:01, Wesley Craig wrote: > If you're concerned that the databases files be consistent, then the > only way is to cleanly shutdown the processes that have the databases > open. Snapshots will definitely NOT guarantee consistency of the > databases, since consistent databa

Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-23 Thread Wesley Craig
On 22 Jun 2006, at 23:53, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 12:17, Seiichirou Hiraoka wrote: So I want to know the better (or recommend) way to backup Cyrus-IMAPD /var/imap files to other host without stop service. AFAIK the only way to do it properly is to use snapshots on the f

Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Eckl
Uuuuhh *run and hide* http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/install-FAQ.html#nfs ;) Best, Daniel Seiichirou Hiraoka schrieb am 23.06.2006 14:35: > Hi, > > I'm using Cyrus-IMAPD 2.2.10 on two solaris9 hosts > - One is main and another is backup - and using rsync (*1) > to sync two host's /var/

Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 23 June 2006 12:17, Seiichirou Hiraoka wrote: > So I want to know the better (or recommend) way to backup > Cyrus-IMAPD /var/imap files to other host without stop > service. AFAIK the only way to do it properly is to use snapshots on the file system, and then use rsync or tar or whateve