Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

[Rudy Gevaert]

On 04/18/2011 05:19 PM, Vincent Fox wrote:

> I've recently started working with netbackup7 ability to backup
> the VMware image   This allows the backup of a large SAN LUN
> to take place on the head node.  Currently using it on our Sympa
> list-server node which has same problem as Cyrus, many small
> files for the list archives.
>
> No client install required
> No backup loading on the VM
> Backups fairly quick, it's a stream of a snapshot of the image
> DR would be quick
> API into the backup image allows individual file recoveries
>
> We are not currently running Cyrus in VM, but I can see where
> we will be eventually, and what we'd do for backup/recovery.


Hi Vincent,

How do you make the snapshot consistent (netbackup+vmware snapshot)?

Do you stop cyrus?

Rudy