Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

[John Hughes]

> We're using vxfs on solaris, taking a snapshot of the applicable
> filesystem, backing up the filesystem, aned then deleting the
> snapshot.
>
> This leads to perfect consistancy, though it does require the
> creation of a snapshot on a live system.

That's what I do with vxfs on UnixWare.

What's your worry with taking a snapshot on a live system?  We
do 4-5 a day on two systems every day of the week.

Also with a vxfs snapshot vxdump is the way to go - it's FAST,
especialy for incremental backups.