Re: graceful failure on absence of imap server?

Laurence Southon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.user
Organization Tiger Computing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[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
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