From: Nik Conwell (no email)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 09:17:17 EST
I chose that number based on scientific total lack of clue. Also,
that was the nearest round number of space left over in the cyrus VG
(~68G). I take it I overestimated a little :)
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Guus Leeuw jr. wrote:
> I am just wondering why in the world you are using 10G for your
> snapshot?
> This is 10G worth of snapshot bitmap + changes to the source while the
> snapshot is active. Hence you either have a *large* source, or a very
> *active* mail system...?
>
> Just my $0.02,
> Guus
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:info-cyrus-
>> ] On Behalf Of Nik Conwell
>> Sent: 05 December 2006 12:05
>> To: Cyrus User's Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: how to backup a cyrus server?
>>
>> 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
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