Re: Server Backup

2016-02-08 Thread Shawn Bakhtiar via Info-cyrus
> On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:19 AM, Giuseppe Ravasio (LU) via Info-cyrus > wrote: > > Hi, > I'm rewriting my backup script and I cannot find any hint about how to > backup the cyrus server in a good way. > > Actually I'm using this method: > > - Stop Postfix and Cyrus Although prudent, given that w

Re: Server Backup

2016-02-08 Thread Niels Dettenbach via Info-cyrus
Am Montag, 8. Februar 2016, 15:19:22 schrieb Giuseppe Ravasio via Info-cyrus: > I'm rewriting my backup script and I cannot find any hint about how to > backup the cyrus server in a good way. I think this hardly depends from what kind of backups / restores do you need in which way. In a larger

Server Backup

2016-02-08 Thread Giuseppe Ravasio (LU) via Info-cyrus
Hi, I'm rewriting my backup script and I cannot find any hint about how to backup the cyrus server in a good way. Actually I'm using this method: - Stop Postfix and Cyrus - making tar of /var/lib/sieve - making tar of /var/lib/imap - dumping mailboxes.db in plain text (ctl_mboxlist -d) - taking s