[Dovecot] Backup Maildir

[Odhiambo Washington]

* On 06/10/05 16:06 +0100, Gabe Granger wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home.  I'm not sure if a  
> full back up is the best way to do backups.  I know with my  
> fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would  
> file on those type of files.  I guess my question to the group is,  
> how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it?


This is an interesting question, especially because it relates to mail!
I am a systems admin, but this is one area that I seriously flop in.

How do you backup e-mails for users when during the backup, they are
deleting the e-mails from the Maildir (POPping) and at the same, and
the SMTP server is also writing to it. This is very real on a busy
mail server.

So, how do people make backups of client's e-mails (Maildir)???


-Wash

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