Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-19 Thread Rainer Wolf
Hi Richard , tsm-server: V5.3.3.0 on solaris v440/16GB ram, 3494lib, 3592drives tsm-client: V5.3.3.0 on solaris v440/16GB ram Our cyrus mail-server is set up on solaris and running the whole mail-data with a copy using a private-fc to another building as a permanently synced one -- it's a poor-ma

Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-18 Thread Karl Rößmann
Quoting Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Richard Sims - wrote: - For planning purposes, I'd like to get input from Cyrus sites as to issues they've encountered in performing backups and restorals, particularly with coherency, given that each message becomes an individual file. The Ma

Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Roder
Hi Richard, We use Cyrus on Solaris, but I think the concepts follow to Linux. ...and sorry for the length of this, but it is complicated... We have 12 spools of roughly equal size currently across 4 machines clustered with one standby node. Soon, we will cluster 6 machines, and each machin

Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Richard, I'll try to get you some detailed information from our Cyrus support person. We have been running Cyrus for years. A couple of years ago we had some filesystem corruption and had to restore a mail spool filesystem from TSM. It took much longer than we wanted/expected it to. Yes, it's

Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Raibeck
A couple of sources I found agree that "impetuses" is the correct plural form. :-) Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Denier
Richard Sims - wrote: - >For planning purposes, I'd like to get input from Cyrus sites as to >issues they've encountered in performing backups and restorals, >particularly with coherency, given that each message becomes an >individual file. The Many Small Files issue is apparent, but there

Re: Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-16 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 16 May 2006 09:32:16 -0400, Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We're a site who has been using IMAP with mbox style mail "folders" > for a decade. It's obvious that as we boost mail quotas, mbox "does > not scale". Thus, we are planning for a conversion to Cyrus, on > Linux. > [.

Seeking thoughts on Cyrus email backup/restore

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Sims
We're a site who has been using IMAP with mbox style mail "folders" for a decade. It's obvious that as we boost mail quotas, mbox "does not scale". Thus, we are planning for a conversion to Cyrus, on Linux. For planning purposes, I'd like to get input from Cyrus sites as to issues they've encount