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[Gunnar Wrobel]

Zitat von "Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com>:

> On Monday, November 29, 2010 08:05:32 pm Skip Morse wrote:
>> 2010/11/28 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com>:
>> > On Friday, November 26, 2010 06:59:03 am Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> >> @Jeroen: Is there an alternative for generating a backup of the Cyrus
>> >>
>> >> annotation data?
>> >
>> > The simplest way is using the ctl_cyrusdb utility:
>> >
>> > /path/to/ctl_cyrusdb /path/to/annotations.db skiplist /path/to/backup.db
>> > flat
>> >
>> > Restoring is then performed using:
>> >
>> > /path/to/ctl_cyrusdb /path/to/backup.db flat /path/to/annotations.db
>> > skiplist

Thanks for the input Jeroen!

I updated the wiki page on backups accordingly:

  http://wiki.kolab.org/Backups_for_kolab2#IMAP_store_backups_.28cyrus.29

Just a minor correction: The tool is called "cvt_cyrusdb" rather than  
"ctl_cyrusdb" (though the latter one also exists).

Cheers,

Gunnar

>> >
>> Thanks for the input.  Since I'm using Berkley format, would i just
>> change the 'skiplist' above to Berkely?
>
> Yes.
>
> All equivalent strings for database formats you typically use in
> /etc/imapd.conf can be used in this command, so in your case this would be
> berkely.
>
>> Also, is this something that
>> can/should be done when the imap service is running?
>>
>
> Yes it can.
>
> All the database formats have some form of locking, but one needs to use the
> appropriate db engine utilities (much like mysqldump vs. cp -a
> /var/lib/mysql/).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
>
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