Backup of Cyrus

[Doug Koobs]

I've been doing some reading of the list archives, and have learned that my
current backup process is not sufficient. I'm hoping to get some feedback on
my new proposed process. I only have about 20 users, total mail store is
under 300 MB. I can stop the services. I want to be able to recover from
total disaster, and from user errors. For now, I will do a full backup
nightly

I'm using RH9 and Simon Matter's RPMs. Here are the beginnings of a script
that I hope to use:

#######################################
postfix stop				# Stop MTA
etc/rc.d/init.d/cyrus-imapd stop		# Stop Cyrus
su cyrus -c "ctl_mboxlist -d" > mailboxes-`date '+%m%d%y'` # List mailboxes;
file makes restore easier???

#Backup the following directories (I  haven't decided on which tool yet):
#/var/spool/imap
#/var/lib/imap

etc/rc.d/init.d/cyrus-imapd start		# Start Cyrus
postfix start				#Start MTA
########################################

Will this be sufficient? Thanks,

Doug





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