[Kolab-devel] automated backup

[Markus Heller]

Dear developers,

I just read about a feature wish somebody stated in the wiki:

"Integrated tar/gz/bz backup of mailboxes and configuration files plus cron 
scheduling"

What do you think about omitting the idea that the backup needs to be 100% 
consistent? 

I mean, in that case, a simple perl script would be absolutely sufficient. In 
order not to rely on the tar and gzip binaries of the underlying OS, the 
following perl modules would need to be installed:

Compress::Zlib
Archive::Tar
Archive::Zip

The only problem here would be scalability. In case somebody has a 1 TB Kolab 
installation, such a perl script would run forever. Perhaps a neat little c 
implementation wouldn't be bad either?

Or would you suggest to leave this task to the cyrus guys and hope they start 
to develop reasonable backup procedures within cyr_master?

What's your strategy?

Thanks for your oppinion!

Markus