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

[Patrick Boutilier]

I use TSM to backup my Cyrus mail store. Over 7 million files so it does 
take TSM almost 8 hours to go through the store on a nightly basis.



Steve Barber wrote:
> I've seen some interesting comments in this thread so far, but none
> seem to discuss our concerns:  We have a fairly large installation,
> and due to the file-per-message nature this makes for millions of
> small files which can wreak havoc on a backup system.  We're using
> VXFS on Solaris, but are using a homegrown hodgepodge of stuff
> to get reasonable backup performance, and our trust in this solution
> is not terribly high.  I'm curious how others have addressed the
> situation?  We have not even attempted to set TSM or any other
> commercial backup software loose on the mail server yet because of the
> incredible index requirements.
> 
> Is anyone successfully implementing any sort of incremental backup
> solution in a large production environment?
> 
> Steve