[Dovecot] Backup Maildir

[Curtis Maloney]

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?
> 

I backup the machine using Rsync, set to move any changed or deleted files to a 
date-stamped folder.  That way I always have a live tree of the last backup 
(effectively a full backup) and daily directories of changes, without the 
network overhead.

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Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net