From: Nik Conwell (no email)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 07:05:22 EST
On Dec 4, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Rafael Mahecha wrote:
>
[...]
>> I used to use tivoli to backup the old server (which was ok since
>> no data bases were involved)... but since cyrus has databases and
>> such, I am concern about file-locking and database corruption.
>>
>> What is the best way to back up the server? shutdown cyrus for a
>> while, then snap shot it, and then back up to tivoli.... or should
>> I just be able to back up the running server directly to tivoli?
>>
>> what other software can I use to backup?
>
> Check out the Cyrus Wiki page at:
>
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup
>
> Most people just make a regular backup of the filesystem using
> whatever tools they normally use. The only "trick" is to export
> your mailboxes.db to a flat text file in order to back it up (which
> you should be doing periodically anyways).
[...]
We're using TSM for backups. The Wiki notes using LVM snapshots so
we ended up doing that. We have a pre-backup script that does the
ctl_mboxlist -d for a text mailboxes file, ctl_cyrusdb -c to
checkpoint, a sync, and then a lvcreate --snapshot --size 10G --name
lv_cyrus_snapshot /dev/vg_cyrus/lv_cyrus. We then mount the snapshot
and back it up normally with TSM. Haven't had a lot of restore
experience but testing worked out OK.
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