Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

[Huaqing Zheng]

On 9/19/05, lkolchin at univ.haifa.ac.il <lkolchin at univ.haifa.ac.il> wrote:
>  
> Hello again. 
>   
> Is it really no one on the list can suggest me some backup/restore howto for
> Cyrus mailboxes? 
> I believe that there are some guys on the list who can help. 
>   
> So please be so nice to answer me. 

I think anyone who runs a large cyrus installation has written scripts
and procedures on how to backup and restore cyrus mailboxes and
servers.  I've certainly written my share.  However, a
lot of this depends on your backup mechanism.  How do you plan on
backing up your cyrus mailboxes?  Are you NAS/SAN snapshots?  Tivoli? 
rsync-backup?  You need to provide more details before we can help
you.

Restoring a mailbox is trivial.  You just restore the entire mailbox
to a subfolder called in the primary mailbox and then run reconstruct
-r -f on the mailbox.  That'll autodiscover the
restored mailbox and provide the user with a way to get messages back.

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Huaqing Zheng
Beer and Code Wrangler at Large