Tutorial on how to backup/restore cyrus

[Simon Matter]

> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, lkolchin at univ.haifa.ac.il wrote:
>
>> Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cyrus and
>> I think it's very problematic in production environment.
>
> I think the point is that, short of using some of the replication stuff
> from pre-2.3 in CVS, there's no proper way of doing a hot backup.  All
> of the snapshotting techniques (whether filesystem snapshots, rsync or
> otherwise) require a little bit of downtime to complete, but are
> employed *specifically* to minimize downtime.

I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without any
downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM based
snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really
consistent from the aplications point of view.

Simon