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
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