Cyrus backup/restore

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Friday 15 October 2004 21:27, Dudi Goldenberg wrote:

Hi Dudi,

> I have a Debian sarge machine running postfix/cyrus21, serving ~30 users
> with about 8000 daily emails.
> Until I set up a proper backup solution, I have this little script that
> dumps all the users' mailboxes:
> Files in /home/public/cyrus are created just fine, judging by file
> sizes, I'd guess that all the data is properly dumped, however, I get
> these messages in /var/log/mail/log:
> Oct 15 21:09:57 mail cyrus/dump[20191]: SQUAT failed to open index file
> Oct 15 21:09:57 mail cyrus/dump[20191]: SQUAT failed

This is an error in your cyrus.conf. You might have something like this in 
your EVENTS:

squatter        cmd="/opt/cyrus/bin/squatter -r" at=0401

but it should be without the -r.

-- 
ciao, Marc
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