A (currently theoretical) question concerning a book about the Kolab Server

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 08:21, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> As Bernhard mentions: with IMAP you will only have one storage
> system. Most groupware servers come with IMAP for mail storage and a
> database for data storage. Combining this in one system makes both
> replication and backup easier for the admin.

The other aspect is that many databases and groupware concepts
makes it hard to to an incremental backup online and keeping a consistant 
state. Often the result is that you need to backup a full large binary object 
with the complete dump of a consistant state.

> > Yes, and it does not come from the IMAP usage, but from the idea of doing
> > the main groupware work on the client. A good client can have several
> > storages, remote and local.
>
> But do you envision to use any other kind of storage type than IMAP
> for the future? I

No, but several IMAP stores, which can be distributed over several servers
(e.g. private, company, and spare time club).

> didn't see the client aspect of the solution yet but 
> it makes sense.

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