Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:22:11 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best possible email failover solution Message-ID: <40D76DA3.9090809@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <a22ff294040621115173bad2e0@mail.gmail.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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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
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