Re: mail restore question

2004-08-12 Thread lst_hoe01
Zitat von Adam Parrott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i was running cyrus and postfix on my suse 8.2 box. all mail was kept > in /var/spool/imap/user for each user. the only backup i kept was the > contents of the /var/spool/imap directory. the harddrive was noisy so > i decided to replace it and at the s

mail restore question

2004-08-11 Thread Adam Parrott
i was running cyrus and postfix on my suse 8.2 box. all mail was kept in /var/spool/imap/user for each user. the only backup i kept was the contents of the /var/spool/imap directory. the harddrive was noisy so i decided to replace it and at the same time i am switching to debian. the distro swith r

Re: Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-08 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Earl Shannon wrote: > load balancing mechanisms. I haven't looked closely enough > at the concept of a Cyrus Murder to know whether or not it > would provide the type of scalability and redundancy that I > would like. The Cyrus Murder does not provide the functionality you are

Re: Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-08 Thread Earl Shannon
Hello, Quick recovery is a definite concern with Cyrus. The thing that really needs to be looked at in my opinion is some form of scalability/redundancy design that allows machines to be added and removed on the fly without affecting services provided. This implies a cluster arrangement of some s

Re: Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-07 Thread Simon Matter
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb: > > On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Simon Matter wrote: > > I'm currently planning a new mailsystem so I'm interested in quick > > recovery in case something goes wrong. > > Quick recovery means you need to shutdown the mail system, LVM-snapshot the > volume and restart

Re: Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Simon Matter wrote: > I'm currently planning a new mailsystem so I'm interested in quick > recovery in case something goes wrong. Quick recovery means you need to shutdown the mail system, LVM-snapshot the volume and restart it (if your system is well configured, this is quite

Re: Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-07 Thread Simon Matter
Earl Shannon schrieb: > > Hello, > > Sadly we've a little experience in IMAP server recovery. > Most of what I'm listing makes common sense but I'll say > it anyway. Hi, I'm currently planning a new mailsystem so I'm interested in quick recovery in case something goes wrong. My idea was the fo

Re: Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-06 Thread Earl Shannon
Hello, Sadly we've a little experience in IMAP server recovery. Most of what I'm listing makes common sense but I'll say it anyway. How to quickly get back a once working server depends upon whats wrong with it. We've not had any problems with software failing but have had hardware bite us(me) in

Yet another mail-restore question...

2003-01-03 Thread Bryntez
Has anybody on the list made a detailed doc about howto restore the maildb in case of disaster ? I mean a short, quick note with step-by-step commands to execute, to quickly get back in business ? If for some reason the system crashes, it sure would have been nice to have a doc at hand to quickly