How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

[Daniel Eckl]

Uuuuhhhhhh *run and hide*

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/install-FAQ.html#nfs

;)

Best,
Daniel

Seiichirou Hiraoka schrieb am 23.06.2006 14:35:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Cyrus-IMAPD 2.2.10 on two solaris9 hosts
> - One is main and another is backup - and using rsync (*1)
> to sync two host's /var/imap every day.
> Two host mount (share) /var/spool/imap via NFS.
> 
> (*1) run as following on backup
>        /opt/sfw/bin/rsync -a --delete --rsync-path=/opt/sfw/bin/rsync
>          main:/var/imap/ /var/imap/
> 
> Usualy, only main host's imapd is running and backup host's
> imapd is not running. I run imapd on backup manually in case
> I want to use by test.
> 
> The composition is following.
> 
>          main                             backup
>    +-------------+                    +-------------+
>    | Local Disk  |                    | Local Disk  |
>    |  /var/imap  |                    |  /var/imap  |
>    +-------------+                    +-------------+
>           | NFS                              | NFS
>    +------------------------------------------------+
>    |        NFS Server      /var/spool/imap         |
>    +------------------------------------------------+
> 
> Well, I have a trouble and question.
> 
> Yesterday, I want to test on backup so I run imapd.
> Then, error message output continues to /var/log/imapd.log
> as following.
> 
> - Jun 22 22:01:12 solomon2 ctl_cyrusdb[25123]: [ID 854764 local6.error]
>     DBERROR: error listing log files: No such file or directory
> - Jun 22 22:01:12 solomon2 ctl_cyrusdb[25123]: [ID 686478 local6.error]
>     DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
> 
> I think the reason, the file in /var/imap/ is broken because of
> rsync timing of execution.
> 
> So I want to know the better (or recommend) way to backup
> Cyrus-IMAPD /var/imap files to other host without stop
> service.
> 
> Please tell me how to achieve it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> - flathill
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