Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 01:51:05AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I'm mainly wondering if it's common for backup programs to > support using a separate program to generate the backups. For > example if there was a "dovecot-backup" binary that just > dumps all (or new-since-last-backup) of the users'

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.12.2011, at 3.03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > To cope with catastrophic failure, create a "special" Dovecot > administrator only mailbox (real/virtual/whatever) that "contains" all > of the SiS files, a special Dovecot index. I'm not thinking about a catastrophe. For that a regular full filesyste

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/4/2011 12:16 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 4.12.2011, at 19.41, Terry Carmen wrote: > If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? >>> >>> I'd first h

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.12.2011, at 0.07, Lorens Kockum wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> And before designing it I'd need to look into how the backup >> softwares usually work.. If anyone has any ideas about this, >> I'd like to hear. > > Simple or even moderately efficient backup programs like rsync > copy all the

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crash non stop: "uid 0: exited on signal 11"

2011-12-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.12.2011, at 1.17, Amaury Le Pivain wrote: > I have an old physical freebsd 6.2 server running Dovecot 1.0.7. I wanted to > virtualised it. > > So, I did a dd from the physical server and then I restored it on then now > Virtual Machine. > > I booted the server, all services are running ju

[Dovecot] Dovecot crash non stop: "uid 0: exited on signal 11"

2011-12-04 Thread Amaury Le Pivain
Hi all, I have an old physical freebsd 6.2 server running Dovecot 1.0.7. I wanted to virtualised it. So, I did a dd from the physical server and then I restored it on then now Virtual Machine. I booted the server, all services are running just fine excepted Dovecot. I tried to investigate

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Lorens Kockum
Timo Sirainen wrote: > And before designing it I'd need to look into how the backup > softwares usually work.. If anyone has any ideas about this, > I'd like to hear. Simple or even moderately efficient backup programs like rsync copy all the files. Of course, if the program copies directories A B

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Terry Carmen
So I was thinking that there probably could be some tool that during a user's backup it would write the attachments among the user's other files, so it would be easy to find all of the files needed for a restore. This would of course mean that backups can take a lot more space, because ther

Re: [Dovecot] Plugin for munin

2011-12-04 Thread Micah Anderson
Eduardo Casarero writes: > 2011/12/2 Patrick Westenberg > >> Hi there, >> >> is anyone using munin to monitor connections to dovecot? >> If someone does, which plugin is used? I'm using the one from nagiosexchange, but I modified it for dovecot2: #!/bin/sh # # Munin Plugin # to count logins to

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.12.2011, at 19.41, Terry Carmen wrote: >>> If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, >>> we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in >>> dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? >> >> I'd first have to design it. And before designing it I'd need t

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Terry Carmen
If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? I'd first have to design it. And before designing it I'd need to look into how the backup softwares usually work.. If any

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.12.2011, at 16.10, Maria Arrea wrote: > If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, > we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in > dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? I'd first have to design it. And before designing it I'd need to look into h

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Maria Arrea
Hello Timo. If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? Regards Maria > 5ยบ We use bacula to save indexes & mdboxes, and we recover mailboxes using > doveadm impor

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension

2011-12-04 Thread A.L.E.C
On 2011-12-02 16:12, Timo Sirainen wrote: > It's implemented now in dovecot-2.1 hg. It also deprecates autocreate plugin > (but it still works the old way). The idea is that you can now do e.g.: > mailbox Spam { > auto = create # autocreate, but don't autosubscribe > special_use = \Junk This