Hang on though... don't you also have to stop sendmail, or cyrus-master
to avoid
mail delivery? That's what I do while backing up.
Quoting Matt Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I backup Cyrus with the following method:
1. Stop MySQL (used for login/alias etc)
2. Create a filesystem snapshot of the
So what does /var/lib/imap/db directory actually hold? This is the
only thing I am not clear on right now.
Files like __db.001 that in the folder are the bdb shared memory cache.
The log.0001 type files are transaction logs for bdb.
If there is a problem with the bdb databases, you can s
Simon Matter wrote:
So my understanding of the backup procedures of cyrus imapd are,
(I am running on RHEL4 built in version of cyrus-imapd 2.2.12)
1) backup /var/spool/imap (or all the actual message stores, there are
no BerkleyDB's in here so they can be backed up normally?)
2) backup /var/
I backup Cyrus with the following method:
1. Stop MySQL (used for login/alias etc)
2. Create a filesystem snapshot of the volume mail is stored on in LVM2 3.
Restart MySQL (down for all of 5 seconds)
4. Backup /var/spool/imap/* /var/lib/imap/* (and a few other things) from
the snapshot.
5. Release
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Derek Yarnell said:
> So my understanding of the backup procedures of cyrus imapd are,
>
> (I am
> So my understanding of the backup procedures of cyrus imapd are,
>
> (I am running on RHEL4 built in version of cyrus-imapd 2.2.12)
>
> 1) backup /var/spool/imap (or all the actual message stores, there are
> no BerkleyDB's in here so they can be backed up normally?)
>
> 2) backup /var/lib/imap/s
