backup for kolab

[Antonio Straziota]

Thanks to all for the help! ;)

i'll try without stopping neither.

bye!

2009/2/26 ITSEF Admin <itsef-admin at brightsight.com>:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 16:31:28 Antonio Straziota wrote:
>> i need to have a hot backup for kolab.
>> looking to http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Backups_for_kolab2 is very
>> simple, but it requires to stopp kolab service.
>> is there a way to backup all kolab data without stop-start kolab?
>
> In my experience, there is no need to stop any service. We've been pulling
> backups from the live imap spool for three years now without stopping cyrus
> (we actually ran into problems with starting/stopping way back then). The
> worst that can happen is that a few mails will not get backed up as they
> appeared or disappeared after rsync has made its file list. Those mails will
> get picked up in the next round. We're running four incremental snapshots per
> day that way and up until now it seems to work perfectly fine.
>
> Hence, it really depends on what you need to accomplish: If you have a *lot*
> of mail coming in at any given time and if you need your backups to be 100%
> accurate all the time, you might have to think about other ways. If you can
> live with the scenario I described above, you get away with not stopping
> cyrus.
>
> Cheerio,
>
> Thomas
>
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