Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 02/16/2010 01:48 PM, Michael Bacon wrote:
> --On February 16, 2010 9:35:56 AM -0800 Vincent Fox<vbfox at ucdavis.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Michael Bacon wrote:
>>> For those of you doing ZFS, what do you use to back up the data after a
>>> zfs  snapshot?  We're currently on UFS, and would love to go to ZFS, but
>>> haven't  figured out how to replace ufsdump in our backup strategy.
>>>
>> There are other commercial backup solutions however we were
>> already a NetBackup shop.  So we simply set our backups to run
>> against the mail at yesterday path. A locally-written script managing
>> the snapshot process  rolls @yesterday into a date-coded format
>> e.g. mail at 20100214 before doing the new @yesterday snapshot.
>> It also destroys the 15th snapshot.
>>
>> The snapshot path is a "real" filesystem that
>> is traversible it's just read-only.  So other backup
>> solutions like Amanda, star, etc. should work fine.
>> I expect everything except ufsdump should work
>> fine and really, doing backups on a hot filesystem with
>> as much activity as Cyrus seems pretty iffy anyhow.
>
> Yeah, unfortunately our enterprise backup solution is TSM, which is good
> for just about everything but Cyrus.  (It keeps a database with an entry
> for every single file, which with Cyrus's tens of millions of files, really
> doesn't work well.)

Would be nice if the TSM UNIX clients supported journalling.



>
> We'll probably end up doing something with tar and either TSM or our new
> VTL infrastructure, but I was hoping someone had some prebuilt scripts or
> something cool that would take care of it.
>
>
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