On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 01:09 +0800, Feizhou wrote:
> > depends upon configuration - default invoca.ch rpm's would have (and
> > thus RHEL/CentOS) distribution would have...
> >
> > ]# ls -l /var/lib/imap/db.backup1
> > total 9408
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Dec 6 09:20 annotations.db
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 9573343 Dec 6 09:20 log.0000000005
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 21336 Dec 6 09:20 mailboxes.db
> >
> > # ls -l /var/lib/imap/db.backup2
> > total 9336
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Dec 6 08:50 annotations.db
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 9500591 Dec 6 08:50 log.0000000005
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 21336 Dec 6 08:50 mailboxes.db
> >
> > thus there should be at least 2 backups of the mailboxes.db
> > automatically. Of course this doesn't supplant a decent backup
> > implementation.
> >
>
> I take it then that adding/removing mailboxes are the only times this
> file gets updated?
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no - db is checkpointed (cyrus.conf)
EVENTS {
# this is required
checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30
cyrus is very sophisticated
Craig