Best way to backup cyrus system

[Bryntez]

We have used Norton Ghost 2003 with success on our
RedHat 7.3 server which has ext3 filesystem support.

If you do a partition to partition copy, you can even
transfer your whole system to a larger disk.

Approx. downtime is about 1 hour to make the "ghost".

When you boot up your system again whith the new disk,
it runs as nothing had happened :-)

And you can set up a daily cronjob or something that
copies your .db files from your mailstore to another
server/computer by ftp or something. That should be
sufficient - at least if your major users are "pop3"
users and if there's not too many of them :-)

Regards
bryntez


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lederer" <john at jhml.org>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Best way to backup cyrus system


> As another newbie, I was sure hoping someone would share their
> experience here. :)
>
>
> I would add to Boris' question what the best way would be to create poor
> man's redundancy.  I do not necessarily need true failover (though it
> would be nice) but a way to quickly setup a second machine with near
> current data.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> php at gurubase.com wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>