backup/restores

[Simon Matter]

> So my understanding of the backup procedures of cyrus imapd are,
>
> (I am running on RHEL4 built in version of cyrus-imapd 2.2.12)
>
> 1) backup /var/spool/imap (or all the actual message stores, there are
> no BerkleyDB's in here so they can be backed up normally?)
>
> 2) backup /var/lib/imap/sieve, /var/lib/imap/quota and
> /var/lib/imap/user which are all non DB so they can too be backed up
> normally.
>
> 3) berkleyDB dump
> /var/lib/imap/{mailboxes.db|annotations.db|deliever.db} and get them
> backed up.

Please note that not all of the db's have to be berkleyDB. For example
mailboxes.db is skiplist per default.

>
> 4) what about /var/lib/imap/db directory? what is it doing exactly, i
> can not find this directory in the docs?
>
> Now when I restore, it is a bit fuzzy on this, I can just restore the
> stuff from #1 in the same place as it existed before and then run
> reconstruct?
>
> What about restoring the rest? just db_load the DB files?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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> ---
> Derek T. Yarnell
> University of Maryland
> Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
> derek at umiacs.umd.edu
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