Re: graceful failure on absence of imap server?
Laurence Southon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.user |
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| Organization | Tiger Computing |
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[email protected] wrote: > Thanks for that information. I'm actually not trying to do a backup as > much as build a hot standby server. Unfortunately, from what I can gather > the only realistic prospect of doing this is shut down cyrus, rsync, start > cyrus. I didn't want to trouble anyone here with these issues as they are > not directly related to OGO. Do you mean that I should be able to do the > rsync without shutting down the cyrus server which is the source, and that > following the rsync the destination server should be able to reconstruct a > viable system? What I'd read on the cyrus mailing list always seemed to > show the cyrus source-server being shutdown before the rsync. > FWIW I've always done 'hot' rsync backups of Cyrus, and have restored without incident. My understanding is that there is a risk of losing some seen/unseen state information with this technique, but that's all. Regards, Laurence Southon London, UK -- OpenGroupware.org Users [email protected] http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/users