[Dovecot] backing up emails
Noel Butler
noel.butler at ausics.net
Tue Jun 29 02:33:58 EEST 2010
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 14:27 +0800, Angelo Chen wrote:
> auth default:
> passdb:
> driver: pam
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
>
You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd hope that if server is on
any importance you would be doing more than just backing up that.
/home /etc /var/mail or where ever your MTA stores its mail before users
get it should be backed up daily at a bare minimum.
If this is a server of importance you should be doing nightly tar
backups of at least /etc, once a week a full rsync of the entire box,
and a nightly rsync of your mail store, in your case /home and /var/mail
(or /var/spool/postfix if you're using that), and use that on a rolling
7 day basis... providing you have the space for it on your backup
server.
Cheers
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