* [gentoo-server] webmail software @ 2005-08-18 22:09 Michael Irey 2005-08-18 22:19 ` Jeff Rooney ` (3 more replies) 0 siblings, 4 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Michael Irey @ 2005-08-18 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high use production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. I am looking for: * stability * security * speed * ability to change the look and feel * overall features The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. Any suggestions would be great. Thank you. Michael Irey System Administrator Portland, Oregon http://www.sightworks.com -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-18 22:09 [gentoo-server] webmail software Michael Irey @ 2005-08-18 22:19 ` Jeff Rooney 2005-08-19 4:29 ` kashani ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Jeff Rooney @ 2005-08-18 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Michael Irey wrote: >Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high use >production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. > >I am looking for: > * stability > * security > * speed > * ability to change the look and feel > * overall features > >The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. > >Any suggestions would be great. > >Thank you. > > >Michael Irey >System Administrator >Portland, Oregon >http://www.sightworks.com > > > > > Personally, I'm a big fan of the horde/imp combo, mostly for its features, speed, and stability. The horde group also has a solid support group in the event that you have any questions. -- Jeff Rooney Systems Administrator Fox Valley Internet jtrooney@FoxValley.net -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-18 22:09 [gentoo-server] webmail software Michael Irey 2005-08-18 22:19 ` Jeff Rooney @ 2005-08-19 4:29 ` kashani 2005-08-19 7:24 ` Pierre Cassimans 2005-08-20 5:41 ` A. Khattri 2005-08-30 13:56 ` Patrick McLean 3 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: kashani @ 2005-08-19 4:29 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Michael Irey wrote: > Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high use > production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. > > I am looking for: > * stability > * security > * speed > * ability to change the look and feel > * overall features > > The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. My old virtual system was running Squirrelmail, but on the new system we're running both Squirrel and Horde/IMP. Most customers seem to like the IMP interface better and its HTML mail support seems to work unlike SM. We will likely drop SM at some point in the future. If you do install both even if just for testing you should modify the preferences so that IMP and SM use the same folders. By default IMP uses sent-mail, drafts, and a trash folder feature is not on. I changed that to Sent, Drafts, and turned on Trash so that users switching between Thunderbird, SM, and IMP had the same folder setup. You'll also need to turn on HTML mail display in one of the conf files as well in IMP. I do find the folder setup in IMP a little funky to browse through, but that's really my only major complaint so far. kashani -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-19 4:29 ` kashani @ 2005-08-19 7:24 ` Pierre Cassimans 2005-11-20 18:56 ` Radu Herinean 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Pierre Cassimans @ 2005-08-19 7:24 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server >From: kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> >Reply-To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org >To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software >Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:29:46 -0500 > >Michael Irey wrote: >>Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high >>use production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. >> >>I am looking for: >> * stability >> * security >> * speed >> * ability to change the look and feel >> * overall features >> >>The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. > > My old virtual system was running Squirrelmail, but on the new system >we're running both Squirrel and Horde/IMP. Most customers seem to like the >IMP interface better and its HTML mail support seems to work unlike SM. We >will likely drop SM at some point in the future. > If you do install both even if just for testing you should modify the >preferences so that IMP and SM use the same folders. By default IMP uses >sent-mail, drafts, and a trash folder feature is not on. I changed that to >Sent, Drafts, and turned on Trash so that users switching between >Thunderbird, SM, and IMP had the same folder setup. You'll also need to >turn on HTML mail display in one of the conf files as well in IMP. > I do find the folder setup in IMP a little funky to browse through, but >that's really my only major complaint so far. > >kashani >-- >gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list > which version of Horde/Imp have you running? I have Imp 4.0.3 running and i'm feeling a big performance hit with this version over the old 3.x ones. Is there a big speed difference between SM and Horde/Imp? Pierre Cassimans Pierre Cassimans -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-19 7:24 ` Pierre Cassimans @ 2005-11-20 18:56 ` Radu Herinean 2005-11-20 18:59 ` Dan Noe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Radu Herinean @ 2005-11-20 18:56 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server i've seen some big fat warnings about multiple vulnerabilities in the horde framework. is that an old status that is no longer valid? to also give some value to my posting: i am also looking into this matter, but i am looking for an alternative to SM. so far i found http://ilohamail.org/ and openwebmail (masked in portage) that are worth considering. iloha seems faster, i will have to check how it performs when used for all the domains hosted on that server. regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Cassimans" <kammicazze@hotmail.com> To: <gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software > > > >>From: kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> >>Reply-To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org >>To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software >>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:29:46 -0500 >> >>Michael Irey wrote: >>>Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high >>>use production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. >>> >>>I am looking for: >>> * stability >>> * security >>> * speed >>> * ability to change the look and feel >>> * overall features >>> >>>The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. >> >> My old virtual system was running Squirrelmail, but on the new system >> we're running both Squirrel and Horde/IMP. Most customers seem to like >> the IMP interface better and its HTML mail support seems to work unlike >> SM. We will likely drop SM at some point in the future. >> If you do install both even if just for testing you should modify the >> preferences so that IMP and SM use the same folders. By default IMP uses >> sent-mail, drafts, and a trash folder feature is not on. I changed that >> to Sent, Drafts, and turned on Trash so that users switching between >> Thunderbird, SM, and IMP had the same folder setup. You'll also need to >> turn on HTML mail display in one of the conf files as well in IMP. >> I do find the folder setup in IMP a little funky to browse through, but >> that's really my only major complaint so far. >> >>kashani >>-- >>gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list >> > > which version of Horde/Imp have you running? I have Imp 4.0.3 running and > i'm feeling a big performance hit with this version over the old 3.x ones. > Is there a big speed difference between SM and Horde/Imp? > > Pierre Cassimans > > Pierre Cassimans > > > -- > gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-11-20 18:56 ` Radu Herinean @ 2005-11-20 18:59 ` Dan Noe 2005-11-20 19:03 ` Craig Webster 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Dan Noe @ 2005-11-20 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:56:02PM +0200, Radu Herinean wrote: > to also give some value to my posting: i am also looking into this matter, > but i am looking for an alternative to SM. > so far i found http://ilohamail.org/ and openwebmail (masked in portage) > that are worth considering. > iloha seems faster, i will have to check how it performs when used for all > the domains hosted on that server. http://www.roundcube.net/ is a new project that shows significant promise. -D -- /--------------- - - - - - - | Dan Noe, freelance hacker | http://isomerica.net/ -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-11-20 18:59 ` Dan Noe @ 2005-11-20 19:03 ` Craig Webster 2005-11-20 20:15 ` Chris 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Craig Webster @ 2005-11-20 19:03 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server On 20 Nov 2005, at 18:59, Dan Noe wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:56:02PM +0200, Radu Herinean wrote: >> to also give some value to my posting: i am also looking into this >> matter, >> but i am looking for an alternative to SM. >> so far i found http://ilohamail.org/ and openwebmail (masked in >> portage) >> that are worth considering. >> iloha seems faster, i will have to check how it performs when used >> for all >> the domains hosted on that server. > http://www.roundcube.net/ is a new project that shows significant > promise. I'll second roundcube. It's not perfect yet, but it's getting there pretty fast :) We set it up as the default webmail client for Xeriom hosting and the general response has been "OOO SHINY!!!" Yours, Craig -- Craig Webster | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: craig@xeriom.net Xeriom.NET | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: http://xeriom.net -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-11-20 19:03 ` Craig Webster @ 2005-11-20 20:15 ` Chris 2005-11-20 20:21 ` Craig Webster 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Chris @ 2005-11-20 20:15 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Craig Webster wrote: > On 20 Nov 2005, at 18:59, Dan Noe wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:56:02PM +0200, Radu Herinean wrote: >> >>> to also give some value to my posting: i am also looking into this >>> matter, >>> but i am looking for an alternative to SM. >> > > We set it up as the default webmail client for Xeriom hosting and the > general response has been "OOO SHINY!!!" > http://www.zimbra.com/ looks very shiny too and i really like xtreme js, but have not tested this one yet... > -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-11-20 20:15 ` Chris @ 2005-11-20 20:21 ` Craig Webster 0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Craig Webster @ 2005-11-20 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server On 20 Nov 2005, at 20:15, Chris wrote: > Craig Webster wrote: >> We set it up as the default webmail client for Xeriom hosting and the >> general response has been "OOO SHINY!!!" > http://www.zimbra.com/ > > looks very shiny too and i really like xtreme js, but have not tested > this one yet... Yea, Zimbra is a lot more feature-complete. We weren't looking to provide eg the calendar stuff; we just wanted an easy to use interface to the email accounts. Plus it looks quite a lot like the Apple Mail interface which is quite nice :) Yours, Craig -- Craig Webster | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: craig@xeriom.net Xeriom.NET | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: http://xeriom.net -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-18 22:09 [gentoo-server] webmail software Michael Irey 2005-08-18 22:19 ` Jeff Rooney 2005-08-19 4:29 ` kashani @ 2005-08-20 5:41 ` A. Khattri 2005-08-30 13:56 ` Patrick McLean 3 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: A. Khattri @ 2005-08-20 5:41 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Michael Irey wrote: > Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high use > production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. > > I am looking for: > * stability > * security > * speed > * ability to change the look and feel > * overall features We are using squirrelmail to serve about 3100 accounts. Similar to your setup (qmail + vpopmail) - the only difference being that we have almost everything in a MySQL database (incl. SM preferences, address books, etc). -- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-18 22:09 [gentoo-server] webmail software Michael Irey ` (2 preceding siblings ...) 2005-08-20 5:41 ` A. Khattri @ 2005-08-30 13:56 ` Patrick McLean 2005-08-30 15:56 ` Joby Walker 2005-08-31 18:30 ` [gentoo-server] webmail software Tim Igoe 3 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Patrick McLean @ 2005-08-30 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Michael Irey wrote: > Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a high use > production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. > > I am looking for: > * stability > * security > * speed > * ability to change the look and feel > * overall features > > The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. > > Any suggestions would be great. We are using squirrelmail with courier-imap to serve ~5000 users, it's working great, haven't had any signifigant problems that I know of. (I am not the administrator of the webmail, one of my coworkers deals with that) I do administer a small mail server with squirrelmail, it works great but we only have about 50 users on it. (though it is a Dual Pentium Pro 200) -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-30 13:56 ` Patrick McLean @ 2005-08-30 15:56 ` Joby Walker 2005-09-02 9:16 ` [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server Luca Dell'Oca 2005-08-31 18:30 ` [gentoo-server] webmail software Tim Igoe 1 sibling, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Joby Walker @ 2005-08-30 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server I've been using squirrelmail for a few years to provide webmail for my users (mostly friends), and in general it is pretty popular. There is also a large number of plugins to provide additional functionality beyond just webmail. Joby Walker PGP key: https://staff.washington.edu/joby/joby-h-pub.asc Patrick McLean wrote: > Michael Irey wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a >> high use production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. >> I am looking for: >> * stability >> * security >> * speed >> * ability to change the look and feel >> * overall features >> >> The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. >> >> Any suggestions would be great. > > > We are using squirrelmail with courier-imap to serve ~5000 users, it's > working great, haven't had any signifigant problems that I know of. (I > am not the administrator of the webmail, one of my coworkers deals with > that) > > I do administer a small mail server with squirrelmail, it works great > but we only have about 50 users on it. (though it is a Dual Pentium Pro > 200) -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-08-30 15:56 ` Joby Walker @ 2005-09-02 9:16 ` Luca Dell'Oca 2005-09-02 10:40 ` Marton Gabor ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Luca Dell'Oca @ 2005-09-02 9:16 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Hi all, I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact I do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the image can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting. I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have the same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot create the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates different files for every partition, and all the other softwares have their own liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the server. Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it. Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr? Thanks, Luca, Italy -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-02 9:16 ` [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server Luca Dell'Oca @ 2005-09-02 10:40 ` Marton Gabor 2005-09-05 21:07 ` Matthias Bethke 2005-09-02 17:25 ` Kirk Hoganson 2005-09-06 4:41 ` Michael Irey 2 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Marton Gabor @ 2005-09-02 10:40 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Hi! Maybe you could use 'dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/destination/file' or something similar though you have to choose another partition for the image. Marton Gabor <gabor.marton@vehok.vein.hu>,<ICQ UIN: 169394884>,<T: +36 30 447-2042> VE-MIK VeHoK informatikai megbizott informatika-l adminisztrator bsc-info szerkeszto gazdinfo szerkeszto Luca Dell'Oca wrote: > Hi all, > I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for > maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows > machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact > I do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the > image can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting. > I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have > the same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot > create the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates > different files for every partition, and all the other softwares have > their own liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the > server. > > Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I > do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not > supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it. > > Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr? > > Thanks, > Luca, Italy -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-02 10:40 ` Marton Gabor @ 2005-09-05 21:07 ` Matthias Bethke 2005-09-07 8:33 ` Luca Dell'Oca 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Matthias Bethke @ 2005-09-05 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1082 bytes --] Hi Marton, on Friday, 2005-09-02 at 12:40:06, you wrote: > Maybe you could use 'dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/destination/file' or > something similar though you have to choose another partition for the image. Don't do that. It will appear to work but usually introduces subtle inconsistencies in the FS structure that fsck may or may not catch, especially when there's constant FS activity like on a mail server. This is only safe for partitions that are mounted read-only. I haven't done anything like this, and I'd think it's not really necessary when you have several machines available anyway (each usually with several partitions, unlike Windows where that's a necessary feature) but I'd suggest dump(1). dump can exclude inodes, so something like touch dumpfile dump -f- -e$(ls -i dumpfile | sed 's/ [[:alpha:]]\+//') /some/mount/point should do roughly what you want. If you use EXT[23] FS that is... regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 481 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-05 21:07 ` Matthias Bethke @ 2005-09-07 8:33 ` Luca Dell'Oca 2005-09-07 15:33 ` Matthias Bethke 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Luca Dell'Oca @ 2005-09-07 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Matthias Bethke wrote: > Don't do that. It will appear to work but usually introduces subtle > inconsistencies in the FS structure that fsck may or may not catch, > especially when there's constant FS activity like on a mail server. This > is only safe for partitions that are mounted read-only. > I haven't done anything like this, and I'd think it's not really > necessary when you have several machines available anyway (each usually > with several partitions, unlike Windows where that's a necessary > feature) but I'd suggest dump(1). dump can exclude inodes, so something > like > > touch dumpfile > dump -f- -e$(ls -i dumpfile | sed 's/ [[:alpha:]]\+//') /some/mount/point > > should do roughly what you want. If you use EXT[23] FS that is... Uhm, no, I'm using ReiserFS, it's the same xyntax? Or maybe dump does not work with reiser file system? Regards, Luca. -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-07 8:33 ` Luca Dell'Oca @ 2005-09-07 15:33 ` Matthias Bethke 0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Matthias Bethke @ 2005-09-07 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 793 bytes --] Hi Luca, on Wednesday, 2005-09-07 at 10:33:44, you wrote: > >touch dumpfile > >dump -f- -e$(ls -i dumpfile | sed 's/ [[:alpha:]]\+//') /some/mount/point > > > >should do roughly what you want. If you use EXT[23] FS that is... > > Uhm, no, I'm using ReiserFS, it's the same xyntax? Or maybe dump does > not work with reiser file system? No, it's FS specific. I just checked http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#dumprestoretar, and it tells you to use gnutar. Should be fine as well if you don't need a bit-for-bit image of the original FS, which dump wouldn't give you either. gnutar's option you're looking for is --exclude. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 481 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-02 9:16 ` [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server Luca Dell'Oca 2005-09-02 10:40 ` Marton Gabor @ 2005-09-02 17:25 ` Kirk Hoganson 2005-09-06 4:41 ` Michael Irey 2 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Kirk Hoganson @ 2005-09-02 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server I use mkcdrec to make backups of my production servers. It works well for our purposes. It doesn't make an exact image, but it makes a bootable iso that can be used to restore everything on the system. Luca Dell'Oca said the following: > Hi all, > I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for > maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows > machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact I > do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the image > can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting. > I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have the > same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot create > the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates different > files for every partition, and all the other softwares have their own > liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the server. > > Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I > do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not > supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it. > > Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr? > > Thanks, > Luca, Italy -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-02 9:16 ` [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server Luca Dell'Oca 2005-09-02 10:40 ` Marton Gabor 2005-09-02 17:25 ` Kirk Hoganson @ 2005-09-06 4:41 ` Michael Irey 2005-09-06 5:54 ` Joey 2 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Michael Irey @ 2005-09-06 4:41 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server I was looking for the same thing you are trying todo last week. I used partimage and was not happy with it, so I just used tar, and why not? Its tried and true, and I think its about 30 years old. I use this for our production mail (qmail) server. I have tested by fdisking the whole drive and restoring. I had no problems or errors using the restored server. These are the steps I took. Modify for your needs. -- To Backup 1) save metadata about how the disk is partitioned. # sfdisk -l > /etc/partition.bak # cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak 2) back up master boot record (MBR) # dd if=/dev/sda of=/etc/mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 3) back up the operating system: # mount /boot ## if its not already # cd / # tar zcvf - . --exclude='./proc' --exclude='./sys' --exclude='./lost+found' | ssh some_host "cat > backup_server.tar.gz" -- To Restore 1) boot live cd 2) partition drive(s) # ssh backupserver 'cat /etc/partition.bak' Disk /dev/sda: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 8 9- 72261 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9 133 125 1004062+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 134 9728 9595 77071837+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty # sfdisk /dev/sda << EOF 0,9,83,* 9,125,82 134,9595,83 ,,0; EOF notes: sfdisk reads lines of the form <start> <size> <id> <bootable> <c,h,s> <c,h,s> where each line fills one partition descriptor. 3) create file systems # mke2fs /dev/sda1 # mke2fs -j /dev/sda3 # mkswap /dev/sda2 # mkdir /mnt/gentoo # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot # swapon /dev/sda2 # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot 4) restore OS and data # cd /mnt/gentoo # ssh target "cat filename.tar.bz2" | tar zpvxf - -j Decompress with bzip2 -p Preserve permissions -v Verbose -x Extract -f File 5) create proc and sys # mkdir /proc # mkdir /sys 6) restore MBR # dd if=/mnt/gentoo/etc/mbr.bak of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 notes: one could run grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda instead. 7) reboot --end Michael Irey System Administrator ................................................ SightWorks, Inc. Portland, Oregon Web: http://www.sightworks.com SightWorks : Creative Internet Technologies On Friday 02 September 2005 02:16 am, Luca Dell'Oca wrote: > Hi all, > I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for > maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows > machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact I > do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the image > can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting. > I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have the > same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot create > the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates different > files for every partition, and all the other softwares have their own > liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the server. > > Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I > do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not > supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it. > > Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr? > > Thanks, > Luca, Italy -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-06 4:41 ` Michael Irey @ 2005-09-06 5:54 ` Joey 2005-09-06 13:59 ` David Miller 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Joey @ 2005-09-06 5:54 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server Michael Irey wrote: >I was looking for the same thing you are trying todo last week. I used >partimage and was not happy with it, so I just used tar, and why not? Its >tried and true, and I think its about 30 years old. > > > Almost like the Gentoo stage4 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=937805#937805 -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server 2005-09-06 5:54 ` Joey @ 2005-09-06 13:59 ` David Miller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: David Miller @ 2005-09-06 13:59 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 702 bytes --] If you're running LVM2 could you just make a temporary snapshot and then archive that and then remove the snapshot? I run lvm2 but I've never messed with it's snapshot ability. -- David Miller On 9/6/05, Joey <japanoy@loyolaplans.com> wrote: > > Michael Irey wrote: > > >I was looking for the same thing you are trying todo last week. I used > >partimage and was not happy with it, so I just used tar, and why not? Its > >tried and true, and I think its about 30 years old. > > > > > > > Almost like the Gentoo stage4 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4 > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=937805#937805 > -- > gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1180 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software 2005-08-30 13:56 ` Patrick McLean 2005-08-30 15:56 ` Joby Walker @ 2005-08-31 18:30 ` Tim Igoe 1 sibling, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Tim Igoe @ 2005-08-31 18:30 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-server [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1384 bytes --] Patrick McLean wrote: > Michael Irey wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I am reviewing webmail software to be be installed in a >> high use production environment. The mail server is qmail with vpopmail. >> I am looking for: >> * stability >> * security >> * speed >> * ability to change the look and feel >> * overall features >> >> The ones I have reviewed so far are horde/imp, squirrelmail, and DWmail. >> >> Any suggestions would be great. > Try looking into Horde (and Horde-imp which is the mail module for horde). I use this system on a few servers I admin - its gone down well with all the users, especially when I added the extra modules like tasks, notes, address book, calendar I especially like the front page when you login - customisable with blocks of information from the above sections and also rss feeds. > > We are using squirrelmail with courier-imap to serve ~5000 users, it's > working great, haven't had any signifigant problems that I know of. (I > am not the administrator of the webmail, one of my coworkers deals with > that) > > I do administer a small mail server with squirrelmail, it works great > but we only have about 50 users on it. (though it is a Dual Pentium Pro > 200) -- Tim Igoe tim@igoe.me.uk http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide "Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working!" [-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
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