backup cyrus.*?

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Sun Sep 16 16:06:17 EDT 2007


Ross Boylan wrote:
> My mail spool has a lot of files cyrus.cache, cyrus.index, cyrus.header.
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup notes that it
> may be desirable to exclude some files, but only mentions squatter
> specifically (I'm excluding cyrus.squat already, and those are the
> biggest files).  Some of these other files (esp. cyrus.cache) are pretty
> big; if they are recreated automatically I'd like to skip them--unless
> "automatic" recreation is very slow.

None of the recreation is automatic.  If you're trying to save backup 
space, you could skip cyrus.index and cyrus.cache, but if you have to 
restore from backup, you'll have to run reconstruct on the restored 
mailboxes.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University


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