From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 05:54:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1D316A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx01.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6143D53 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from asimov.sohotech.ca (asimov.sohotech.ca [192.168.1.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx01.sohotech.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3MCsAYk008158 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:54:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:54:09 -0400 From: Ed Budd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040422085409.550702a3.ebudd@grokking.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 Subject: advice sought on tape backups with cyrus-imap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:54:13 -0000 Hi, all: Hoping for a "reality check" from anyone on the list with experience in doing tape backups with cyrus-imap: I've got FBSD 5.2.1REL acting as a mail server running cyrus-imap and wondering what the best (read: safest) method of backing up user mailboxes to tape might be. Can I just dump/restore everything under /var/imap or is there more to it than this, considering the mailboxes are stored in cyrus db format? Does this matter when it comes time to restore? Thanks in advance for any feedback offered, especially warning on any gotchas born from experience :) EB