Re: Database usage/backup/restores

2006-10-19 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Davis See http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup for some hints. Regards, Martin 2006/10/19, David Korpiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have some questions for those of you gurus who truly know the cyrus system. I have a XSAN Mac cluster and we are running mail on it. C

Database usage/backup/restores

2006-10-19 Thread David Korpiewski
I have some questions for those of you gurus who truly know the cyrus system. I have a XSAN Mac cluster and we are running mail on it. Cyrus 2.2.12 if I remember correctly. Anyways, the questions are these: (1) To back up the cyrus database, we shut down the mail server and back up the da

Re: backup/restores

2005-06-30 Thread Robin Rainton
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

Re: backup/restores

2005-06-27 Thread Patrick Radtke
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

Re: backup/restores

2005-06-27 Thread Derek Yarnell
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/

Re: backup/restores

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Goebel
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

Re: backup/restores

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Goebel
-- Matt Goebel Network Systems Administrator Workforce Software 36141 Schoolcraft Road Livonia, MI 48150 Voice: (734) 542-4100 ext. 268 Fax: (734) 542-0635 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.workforcesoftware.com Derek Yarnell said: > So my understanding of the backup procedures of cyrus imapd are, > > (I am

Re: backup/restores

2005-06-27 Thread Simon Matter
> 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

backup/restores

2005-06-27 Thread Derek Yarnell
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/sieve, /var