Best way to backup cyrus system

[Alessandro Oliveira]

I'm new to cyrus, just testing it for 2 weeks and getting very good 
reviews from our users. I think cyrus it is a very powerful piece of 
software, in addition it does a wonderful job with a very small 
footprint, on the other hand, a good backup solution is our chief 
concern, our current backup is done by shutting down the services and 
making a cold dump of the filesystem, but as the /var/spool/imap grows, 
this solution becomes less pratical.

I'm planning to code a database backend (postgres/mysql/oracle) in the 
future to handle the storage, but this will take time and money, but I 
think it is the way to go.

What do you think about this ?

Alessandro Oliveira

>Dear all,
>
>I would like to know the best way of backup/restore cyrus system. What are the 
>steps required? 
>Are there "online backup" methods available? What are the files required to backup 
>and how can 
>I restore it on the same machine/ another machine?
>
>
>Many thanks!
>
>Boris
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