Database usage/backup/restores

[Martin Schweizer]

Hello Davis

See http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup for some hints.

Regards,
Martin

2006/10/19, David Korpiewski <davidk at cs.umass.edu>:
> 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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