Re: backup rsync

2014-08-30 Thread Patrick Goetz
Thanks for that explanation! I don't have time to read every email that comes to the cyrus list, and missed that one. One point of clarification: On 8/30/2014 2:49 PM, Nic Bernstein wrote: > ctl_cyrusdb -c > ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxes.db.dump > stop cyrus > lvm snaps >

Re: backup rsync

2014-08-30 Thread Nic Bernstein
On 08/30/2014 02:37 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 8/30/2014 10:10 AM, Simon Matter wrote: I suggest -aH to preserve single instance storage in the backup. Does cyrus use a lot of hard links? I use rsync a lot to create snapshot backups, and use hard links across snapshots to preserve space; how

Re: backup rsync

2014-08-30 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 8/30/2014 10:10 AM, Simon Matter wrote: > > I suggest -aH to preserve single instance storage in the backup. > Does cyrus use a lot of hard links? I use rsync a lot to create snapshot backups, and use hard links across snapshots to preserve space; however, for a single instance backup and un

Re: backup rsync

2014-08-30 Thread Simon Matter
> Am Freitag, den 29.08.2014, 07:56 -0700 schrieb David R Bosso: >> --On August 29, 2014 at 4:27:57 PM +0200 Marcus Schopen >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm planing to use lvm snaps and rsync for a daily disaster recovery >> > backup on my master cyrus (2.4.12 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS): >> >> Have you

Re: backup rsync

2014-08-30 Thread Marcus Schopen
Am Freitag, den 29.08.2014, 07:56 -0700 schrieb David R Bosso: > --On August 29, 2014 at 4:27:57 PM +0200 Marcus Schopen > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm planing to use lvm snaps and rsync for a daily disaster recovery > > backup on my master cyrus (2.4.12 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS): > > Have you tested l