Database usage/backup/restores

[David Korpiewski]

I have some questions for those of you gurus who truly know the cyrus 
system.

I have a XSAN Mac cluster and we are running mail on it.   Cyrus 2.2.12 
if I remember correctly.

Anyways, the questions are these:

(1) To back up the cyrus database, we shut down the mail server and back 
up the database and then restart the mail server.  To restore the 
database, we save the seen files and we copy over a backup copy of the 
database.
So the question is, is this the right way to backup and restore the 
database?   Is putting an old database in place going to break anything?

(2) What is in the mailboxes.db?  Is it the list of mailboxes for 
everyone on the server?

(3) After restoring should we always kick off a "reconstruct"?

Thank you
David





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