From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 23:22:12 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 C151116A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2793143D41 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:22:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040621232211.MZKZ24784.out014.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:22:11 -0500 Message-ID: <40D76DA3.9090809@mac.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:22:11 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:22:11 -0500 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best possible email failover solution 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: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:22:13 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > It's the mailboxes themselves that are difficult to get. Best we've got right > now is backing up the Cyrus mail folders using rsync ... but this is very time- > consuming, and (thus) only done once a day. In order for it to be done right, > Cyrus has to be shut down while it's backing up. Are you using mbox files rather than maildir-style mailboxes? The latter uses one-message-per-file, and ought to work *much* better both in terms of performance and stability, and in terms of playing nice with the way rsync wants to back things up. [ I don't think that stuffing email into a database is a particularly good idea since that means keeping large blobs of non-relational data floating around, something that the filesystem can do a better job of handling... ] -- -Chuck