[Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?

[Alexander Hoogerhuis]

On 28.01.2010 09:07, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
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> Hi All..
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> Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running rsync every 2 min)
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> Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , etc..
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> If anyone among you did that plz guide&  advise.
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You don't state much on what this runs on, but I do snapshot backups of 
my IMAP server consistently by using LVM, and just match my cronjob to 
snapshot it at a few given times, mounting the snapshot and backing up 
with rdiff-backup.

Very simple, very easy, and very realiable. :)

> Thanks
> CoolAtt
>

-A