On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 14:28 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:52, Craig White wrote: > > > 2. A Maildir setup would likely put each users folders in their home > > directories making it extremely difficult to backup the mail itself > > whereas something like cyrus-imapd has it's own mail store which can be > > put onto it's own partition and could simply be dumped. > > If you are going to the trouble of providing redundancy, I'd think > you'd want to back up all of the user's data, not just email, so > having it all in the same place becomes an advantage for maildirs. > Also, the cyrus database format may have some internal dependencies > that will break if you copy it without shutting down. The maildir > format was designed so the messages were self-contained and do > not need multiple operations to be atomic. Dovecot tries to keep > an index which will most likely be wrong if copied when the user > is active, but it will rebuild it if it becomes inconsistent. > Yeah, the dovecot index stuff I'm hoping really isn't an issue. Hopefully it picks up that things it's out-of-whack and updates itself. As for user data, there isn't any on this system, it's just mail so I only need to replicate the mail partition contents and the LDAP directory part. LDAP will use OpenLDAPs replication of course so that part isn't an issue. -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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