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

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Thu Jan 28 22:15:35 EET 2010


On 1/28/10 12:07 AM, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
> 
> Hi All..
> 
> Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running rsync every 2 min)
> 
> Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , etc..

How?


> If anyone among you did that plz guide & advise.
> 

Sure:

rsync -e 'ssh -ax -i mykey' \
-a --delete --stats \
mailserver.host:/var/mail/vmail \
/localbackup


~Seth


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